China rewards its 'rational and pragmatic' friend Viktor Orban

Washington Examiner ^ | August 15, 2022 04:34 PM | Tom Rogan

[Zhang Fei]

Seeking to advertise the economic value of political fealty to Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party rewarded Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday.

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.

The Global Times is not terribly subtle about the quid pro quo nature of this foreign investment. It explains that Contemporary Amperex has suspended new investments in the U.S. because of Washington’s “poisonous atmosphere of pan-politicization and generalization of [the] concept of security." The newspaper laments "the 'Atlanticists' who interfere with Europe’s pragmatic and rational cooperation, as well as U.S. and Western politicians obsessed with 'values based diplomacy.'"

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.

Beijing is particularly alarmed by the EU parliament’s moves to restrict exports from China’s Xinjiang province in response to Xi Jinping’s genocide against the Uyghur people and increasing market-supply access restrictions faced by technology providers such as 5G giant Huawei. These moves undermine China’s strategy, supported by top European leaders such as recently departed German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to win the EU’s appeasement of China on foreign policy concerns in return for economic investment.

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.

[PGR88]

First lesson of statism/marxism/globalism - No one is allowed to be neutral and independent.

[wildcard_redneck]

Don’t care. It is even close in scope to what China is doing here right in America.

[rfp1234]

The virtue-signaling leftist retards will end up pushing several former allies into the CCP orbit. Russia? Check. Hungary? Check. Turkey? Next in line.

[BobL]

Well, if the West is going to treat him like crap because he wants to keep his homes heated and protect his kids from being groomed, they might as well learn that he’ll find friends elsewhere.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Never trust the Communists. These same Chinese Communists are best buds with the perverts and degenerates in our own country. And those same perverts and degenerates never criticize conservative Communist China.