The doctor of the Chinese Communist Party to whom Vice President Montero opens the doors of Ferraz

The doctor of the Chinese Communist Party to whom Vice President Montero opens the doors of Ferraz

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The doctor Yin Li He was in Madrid last week. It was a decent visit. This renowned Chinese doctor He took out the diplomatic stethoscope to listen to the state of optimal relations between Spain and China. Because he was a big shot Chinese Communist Party (PCC), was celebrated by the high authorities. In this case by the first vice-president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jess Montero, who received an illustrious emissary of the Asian superpower at the PSOE headquarters.

Yin (61), in addition to being a doctor, is the head of the CCP in Beijing and one of the 24 leaders of the powerful and exclusive Politburo, the key decision-making body of the party. His walk through Ferraz was aimed, among other formalities, at anticipating a possible official visit to Beijing by President Pedro Sánchez, which some suggest will take place after the summer.

From China opened its doors last year after the long closure due to the pandemic, the waiting list to go to the Asian giant is long. Leaders from around the world gather in Beijing because they know that traveling to the world’s second-largest economy and paying attention to President Xi Jinping means they will return home with big trade and investment deals.

Big European leaders argue loudly in their meetings in Brussels that dependence on China must be reduced, but then rub their hands every time the Xi regime gives them the green light to visit Beijing. For Sánchez it will be the second trip to the Chinese capital since March 2023.

Yin Li, escorted by Yao JingChinese ambassador to Spain, was received in Ferraz, as well as in Montero, by Secretary of the PSOE OrganizationSantos Cerdín, and the party’s head of International Politics and Development Cooperation, Hana Jalloul. At that meeting, even if he did not appear in the group photo released by the PSOE, there was also José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the former president described by Beijing propaganda as a «friend of the Chinese people». They don’t forget when Zapatero, in 2005, was one of the first Western leaders to support the end of the European arms embargo on China.valid from Tiananmen massacre in 1989.

After concluding in Ferraz, Dr. Yin, accompanied by other CCP officials, also participated in a strange meeting with a CCP delegation. Communist Party of Spainwith José Luis Centella to the head. Before returning to his homeland, Yin went to Seville, where he was received in the palace of San Telmo by the regional president Juanma Moreno and several of his advisors, who have long been trying to open the doors of Andalusia to Chinese technology investors.

Yin, who in addition to his medical career studied public health management at Moscow and Harvard, became executive vice-president of the World Health Organization (WHO) before returning to China in 2008 as deputy minister of the Ministry of Health. As of 2013, with Xi Jinping in power, he paraded as party secretary in the provinces of Sichuan and Fujian. A couple of years ago he was appointed head of Beijing and member of the Politburo. He maintains a high profile in domestic politics and in 2024 entered the diplomatic arena with visits to Morocco, Qatar and now to Spain.