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Daily News Daily News Β· 05/07/2022
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Hungary does not approve of giving Russia and China a similar threat level

The war between Russia and Ukraine has made guaranteeing Hungary’s security the government’s number one goal, Defence Minister KristΓ³f Szalay-Bobrovniczky said in a talk he gave at Budapest’s Mathias Corvinus Collegium on Monday.

Though the government has made it clear that “this is not our war” and that “Hungary will not shed blood for foreign interests, we must stand on the side of the state that has been attacked, meaning Ukraine”, the minister said.

Such a situation calls for speeding up military developments, which Hungary can do thanks to the fact that for the first time in centuries it is in a position to pursue sovereign, nationally minded policies, Szalay-Bobrovniczky added.

The minister said Hungary was taking the strongest stance in Europe in favour of peace and was the most opposed to further escalation.

At the same time, Hungary makes effective contributions to increasing NATO’s defence capabilities, he added.

Like in other members of the alliance’s eastern flank, a battalion battlegroup has been set up in Hungary made up of mostly US troops, he noted. A multinational control centre has also been set up, and Hungary will again patrol the Baltic airspace in 2025, he added.

Also, by 2023, Hungary will increase spending on military developments to 2 percent of GDP, with 48 percent of the resources going towards the development of defence technology, Szalay-Bobrovniczky said.

Concerning last week’s NATO summit in Madrid, the minister welcomed that at Hungary’s initiative NATO had named migration and terrorism among the biggest threats to the alliance alongside Russia. Member states also approved bolstering the eastern flank and decided to invite Finland and Sweden into the alliance, he noted.

Szalay-Bobrovniczky added, however, that

Hungary disagreed with the decision to assign similar threat levels to Russia and China.

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  1. Dari says:
    09/07/2022 at 03:04

    I’m stating the obvious, Hungary is not located in the Indo-Pacific.

    U.S., Canada, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and TAIWAN certainly are, as are many other INDEPENDENT and sovereign Island Nations.

    China is not (not yet) a military threat, and it does not have to be, because it can (and will) get all it wants through the might of it’s economy. One just has to read what China has done to “punish” Australia (placed extremely excessive import duties on Australian agricultural products, when previously there were none on most of the said products) because Australia supported an International investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak.

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