Amidst the excitement of a bright and escapist Holy Week, we return to reality with a public conversation that takes place in the spirit of the cases Masks y Kitchenbackground noise Trump unchainado and the price of oil disappears even more than the prices.
However, it actually brings about a much deeper strategic shift.
I mean the progressive alejamiento of the government Pedro Sánchez a Euro-Western country and its increasing proximity to China and some Ibero-American countries associated with the Puebla group.
This is not an anecdote or a rhetorical exaggeration. It’s fear. And problems in international politics are usually the most important.
The last few months have left clear signals.
Within Europe, it focuses on internal cohesion in the face of a global environment, even more hostile, Spain gradually made me disconnect from the keyholes where structural decisions regarding defense, energy security and strategic autonomy are made.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric; Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Colombian President Gustavo Petro in Santiago de Chile this month.
It is a consequence of a political stance that is even more difficult to achieve in the Western consensus.
A consensus that is not ideological in the classic sense, but functional.
It is based on the defense of a model of shared security, common economic regulations and an institutional architecture that, with all its flaws, guarantees stability for decades.
Getting up from this Marco isn’t impossible, but it comes at a high price. Above all, Y demands a credible alternative.
España, hoy por hoy, no la tenera.
In this context, China’s proximity cannot be seen as a simple diversification of external relations, since China is not a major partner.
It is a systemic competitor for the European Union and the United States, as the institutions of the Community have repeatedly defined.
Strengthen ties with Beijing with a clear strategy, while distancing itself from Brussels and key Atlantic allies, It’s not pragmatism: it’s desalination.
Newspapers were desempeñado por Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero There is another element of concern on this tour.
When it comes to international activism, especially in Ibero-America and throughout the Bolivarian world, this is nothing new. What is new is its growing influence on the current executive’s China strategic orientation, as many recent movements suggest.
The idea of a middle, equidistant, or “misaligned” Spain may be attractive from a discursive point of view, but it shocks the geopolitical reality directly.
In a world that is rearranged into blocks, ambiguity does not lead to autonomy until it is irrelevant.
This includes reactivating ties with Italy’s Ibero-American governments, which share a critical vision of the Western liberal order. Based on its transformations, the Puebla Group continues to be a space of ideological coordination that clearly expresses this order.
Falling away from it as a counterweight to Europe is not just a miscalculation, but rather a high priority for Spanish interests. It does not respond to economic or security strategy unless it is a political affinity They contribute little to Spain’s structural interests.
Most of the time you enjoy these boosters (like the one next week in Barcelona with Presidents Sánchez, Lula da Silva, Gustavo Petro y Yamandú Bearsentre otros) son think tanks de nombre englés y recursos chinos.
I act as head of diplomacy and guarantor of Spain’s position in Europe, our Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albareshe consumed the disciplined appearance of the paper when he is not an uncritical executor of the strategy defined in other areas.
Its leadership not only failed to prevent the deterioration of Spain’s position in Brussels, but in several cases contributed to its deterioration. You are either an act, with hard-to-justify lines, or an omission, with significant deviations at key moments.
More importantly: in key episodes, its implementation was seen as a mere validator of difficult decisions that were supported at the European legal and political level.
Spain’s progressive loss of weight in high-level European forums, the lack of key decision-making dynamics and the inability to formulate its own positions in strategic debates are showing diplomacy that failed to anticipate and limit itself to justification.
Case Delcy It is paradigmatic.
That the European Union is responsible for dismantling the version supported for years by the executive under the name Delcygateconfirming that Delcy Rodríguez entered Spanish territory and that she did not communicate to the European institutions without exception about the sanctions weighing on her is simply devastating.
We are not talking about technical material. Let’s talk about it possible conscious vulnerability of EU Council decisions (legally binding) as well as the absence of mandatory reporting mechanisms in my states.
Because the previous one was not enough, President Sánchez’s public communication has seen contents and formats that are dramatically eroding in order to strengthen its international credibility.
Your videos on the red social network TikTok, with trivial scenes of their words or pretend gestures, probably have an unlikely course in the domestic club.
But what they project, from that place, e.g an image of insubstantial recklessness in a moment that calls for the opposite: leadership, sobriety and strategic clarity.
European politics is not only supported by interests, but by shared rules and mutual trust. And without trust, no paper is possible in international politics.
Neither central nor secondary. Just nobody.
