As European attitudes towards China grow more skeptical, Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán has never wavered in his support for deeper links.
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Peter Szijjarto, welcomes Wang Yi for a meeting in Budapest, Hungary, February 20, 2023. Credit: Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP Photos
China’s ties with central and eastern Europe have frayed in recent years, with one notable exception — Hungary. Late last month, its foreign minister Péter Szijjártó said he was visiting China with an ambitious objective in mind: to make his country the number one investment destination for Chinese companies in the region. As EU leaders continue to debate the extent of their decoupling or derisking from China, Szijjártó had a blunt message: cutting ties would be “economic suicide” f
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