FILE PHOTO: A fisherman leaves the port in Matosinhos, Portugal, May 29, 2018. Picture taken May 29, 2018. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes/File Photo
LISBON (Reuters) - China wants to strengthen its relations with Portugal through a strategic partnership that aims to take advantage of the Iberian country's important location along Beijing's road and belt initiative, China's President Xi Jinping wrote on Sunday.
In an article published in Portuguese daily Diario de Noticias ahead of Xi's visit to Lisbon this week, the Chinese president wrote that relations between the two "transcends time and distance and is a partnership looking to the future."
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