In an editorial, Beijing’s state media Global Times newspaper congratulated Hungary over a major new construction project. It proclaimed that"China’s biggest electric vehicle battery maker," Contemporary Amperex Technology, is to build a $7.5 billion battery plant in Hungary. In return for his political support for China in European Union and NATO policy meetings, and his silence over Chinese human rights and militarism, Orban has earned China’s economic patronage.
This fury reflects China’s deep concern over U.S. efforts to mobilize allies against China’s unfair trade practices and use/theft of Western technology to undermine Western security. In turn, the friendship of governments such as that of Hungary have taken on dramatically increased importance for Beijing. China particularly values Orban’s obstruction of EU and NATO measures to constrain Chinese economic and security priorities.The Global Times praises how"Budapest insists on being rational and pragmatic, not blindly following and avoiding its own national interests to be hijacked.
Of course, as a democratically elected leader with a very powerful and recently retained parliamentary mandate, Orban has the right to pursue whatever foreign policy he wishes. The issue is that the U.S. has the same right. And in that regard, it is no longer credible for Orban to receive the benefits of his American alliance while he flirts with America's preeminent adversary. Moreover, this isn’t just about China.
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