Hungarian FM urges cooperation between West and China
NATO should not turn into an anti-China bloc, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on Wednesday.
Hungarian FM urges cooperation between West and China
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Hungarian FM urges cooperation between West and China

Photo: Facebook/Péter Szijjártó
Mariann Őry 06/04/2023 19:25

NATO should not turn into an anti-China bloc, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on Wednesday.

Mutually beneficial cooperation is preferable to rivalry, Péter Szijjártó said after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, according to Hungarian news agency MTI.

"We have not entered, and we don't want to enter, a competition between China and Europe or China and Hungary," Szijjártó told a news conference. He said the relationship should not be talked about in military terms.

Mutually beneficial cooperation should include "the automotive revolution," he said, noting that European manufacturers have become dependent on South Korean and Chinese batteries. Szijjártó said political decisions on the car industry, which is vital to Europe's economic future, had been made in Brussels in the direction of a radical renewal of the industry.
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"There are now too many interests for this transition not to succeed"

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While developments for the production of electric cars have been made in Europe, politicians have forgotten to create battery production capacity, which is largely owned by Chinese companies, he said. "So anyone who advocates the separation of the Chinese and European economies risks dealing a massive blow to the European economy," he said.
Photo: Facebook/Péter Szijjártó
The minister said that one of the most serious consequences of the war in Ukraine is that the world is moving back towards bloc formation, which is particularly bad news for Central Europe, which has always been caught up in the East-West conflict.

"We believe in connectivity, in creating and maintaining links, rather than bloc building," he concluded, saying that cooperation with China should be even closer.

Finally, he referred to China's peace plan for Ukraine, which he said could be a good starting point for international negotiations. "We would like to see peace talks start as soon as possible, a ceasefire as soon as possible, because the sooner there is a ceasefire, the sooner peace talks start, the more lives we can save in Ukraine," he said.

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