The world has arrived at a crossroads, says PM Orbán in Beijing
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, and they signed ten economic cooperation agreements, in Beijing on Monday, Orban said in a video posted on Facebook.
Beijing is hosting the third Belt and Road Forum which has brought together representatives from 130 countries including 20 heads of state and government, he said.
Hungary was pleased to accept after 2017 and 2019 an invitation again to this year’s summit by China, an important economic partner, Orbán said, noting that
this year Chinese investors form the largest group of foreign investors in Hungary.
The prime minister said that after meeting Li Qiang, he held talks with the CEOs of China‘s two biggest banks.
Speaking about global politics, Orbán said that
“the world has arrived at a crossroads, and the big question now is whether there will be war or peace, isolation or cooperation”. Isolation is something Hungarians know very well, and they know what it comes with: poverty and a lasting threat of war,
“The alternative we seek is to expand our economic ties both with the West and East,”
Orbán said. “I’m convinced that this is the only way for Hungary to preserve its competitiveness and security. This is why we are in China now and this is what we are going to address at our talks in the next days.”
As we wrote today, Hungarian government signs important economic cooperation agreements in China, details HERE.
Source: MTI
At this moment Victor is in China with the Serbian President as well as Putin who will be arriving today. Our country is on the brink of an economic crash and Victor is on the brink of being exposed as a leader who has gotten us here through whatever means he saw fit. The question for us as Hungarians is whether we should continue down this path or do what has happened in Poland this week, try a new method of cooperation with the EU, an organization that has funded all of the vast improvements in our infrastructure as well as help make us the modern prosperous country that we were 10 years ago. Look at the forint, it is in the toilet. Right now Romania and Bulgaria are pulling ahead of us economically, something that we would never be able to imagine. Think hard, this is not the moment to fall to the bribes of money for having babies and the extra pension money.
As a country with a double-digit inflation rate, Hungary’s currency continues to depreciate and the people’s cost of survival increases. Under such circumstances, is it wise to abandon Hungary’s basic national policy of opening to the east for decades and gain EU support in a short period of time at all costs? The European Commission’s approach to Hungary shows that funding from the EU can depend entirely on their mood. Also, please separate the issue of corruption from the issue of actual development, they are two different issues. The actual direction of development determined by Hungary itself should not emasculate itself to adapt to so-called standards, whether from the East or the West.