Beijing is on its 4th high-level visit to Spain in 4 years and has basically decided Sánchez is the EU's real interlocutor. Not von der Leyen. Not Brussels. Spain. And honestly, look at the man's resume: called for Netanyahu's arrest, reopening the embassy in Tehran, pivoting toward Algeria over Morocco, and the FT already tagged him as Trump's "nemesis in Europe." He's not playing coalition politics. He's just doing things. China noticed.