{"id":89974,"date":"2024-07-08T05:03:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T05:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/08\/viktor-orban-hungarys-leader-meets-with-xi-in-china-after-talks-with-putin\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T05:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T05:03:04","slug":"viktor-orban-hungarys-leader-meets-with-xi-in-china-after-talks-with-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/08\/viktor-orban-hungarys-leader-meets-with-xi-in-china-after-talks-with-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Orban, Hungary\u2019s Leader, Meets With Xi in China After Talks With Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/08\/multimedia\/08china-orban-wqpc\/08china-orban-wqpc-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Viktor Orban, Hungary\u2019s Leader, Meets With Xi in China After Talks With Putin\" title=\"Viktor Orban, Hungary\u2019s Leader, Meets With Xi in China After Talks With Putin\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary met with China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday, courting another authoritarian partner after talks with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/05\/world\/europe\/orban-putin-meeting-russia-hungary.html\" title=\"\">in Moscow<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In announcing Mr. Orban\u2019s visit to Beijing, China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20240708\/af11445a9a3d4fa68a01454f4bd24d4b\/c.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said only that<\/a> Mr. Xi would hold an \u201cin-depth discussion with him on issues of mutual interest.\u201d The leaders last met two months ago, when Mr. Xi <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/09\/world\/europe\/xi-jinping-china-hungary-orban.html\" title=\"\">visited Budapest<\/a> as part of a drive to restore Chinese influence in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chinese state television said that Mr. Xi and Mr. Orban were holding talks in the Diaooyutai State Guesthouse, but gave no other details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This meeting will give Mr. Xi and Mr. Orban, an outlier in the European Union on support for Ukraine and other issues, a chance to urge the bloc to distance itself from Washington. Hungary began its six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union this month, giving Mr. Orban a higher profile, though not much more influence, in wider European affairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOur two countries of China and Hungary have similar philosophies and both esteem independence and acting on one\u2019s own initiative,\u201d Mr. Xi told Mr. Orban in May, according to an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.gov.cn\/wjw\/mtbd\/202405\/9ad03f2807364907946baccb295438e0.shtml\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">official Chinese summary<\/a> of their talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Western European leaders have long distanced themselves from Mr. Orban, and when he visited Moscow last week, they emphasized that he did not speak for the European Union. They are likely to take a similarly skeptical view of Mr. Orban\u2019s talks with Mr. Xi in Beijing, during which the two leaders are expected to discuss the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Orban\u2019s visit to China comes before a three-day NATO summit in Washington that starts on Tuesday. At those talks, President Biden and other Western leaders are <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/26\/world\/europe\/nato-ukraine-washington-membership-summit.html\" title=\"\">likely to offer Ukraine<\/a> more support in its war against Russian invasion, though not the NATO membership that its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has urged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Orban <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/orbanviktor\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">described his trip to Beijing<\/a> as continuing a mission for \u201cpeace\u201d for Ukraine, a term Hungary has used to describe a settlement built on Ukrainian capitulation to Russian demands. His visit to Russia last week was the first time a European Union leader had gone there for official talks with Mr. Putin since the first months of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before visiting Moscow, Mr. Orban met in Kyiv with Mr. Zelensky, which observers saw as a move by the Hungarian leader to try to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/08\/world\/europe\/viktor-orban-hungary-europe-alliance.html\" title=\"\">end his isolation in Europe over Ukraine<\/a>. His visits to Ukraine, Russia and China were not announced in advance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Orban has issued broad calls for Moscow and Kyiv to agree to a cease-fire and direct talks, but he has not issued any specific public proposals for a lasting settlement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Similarly, Mr. Xi has promoted a vague framework for peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, while remaining careful to maintain strong ties with Mr. Putin. Chinese troops will take part in military exercises in Belarus, a neighbor and close partner of Russia, in mid-July, China\u2019s Ministry of National Defense <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mod.gov.cn\/gfbw\/jsxd\/ly\/16322187.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced on<\/a> Sunday. The ministry said the joint drills would focus on \u201ccounterterrorist\u201d operations and rescuing hostages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The talks between Mr. Orban and Mr. Xi will give them another opportunity to underscore their shared antipathy to Western security alliances and human rights criticisms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Orban, once a critic of China\u2019s ruling Communist Party, has become a firm partner. He often opposes the European Union\u2019s criticism of China\u2019s hard-line policies in Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang, the western region where Uyghurs and other largely Muslim ethnic groups have endured mass detention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In May, Mr. Xi and Mr. Orban <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/english.scio.gov.cn\/m\/topnews\/2024-05\/10\/content_117178612.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">officially elevated<\/a> China-Hungary relations to an \u201call-weather comprehensive strategic partnership\u201d \u2014 Chinese diplomatic terminology that suggests a deep and enduring bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe see each other as a priority partner of cooperation,\u201d Mr. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/english.www.gov.cn\/news\/202405\/08\/content_WS663b1cdbc6d0868f4e8e6d9a.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Xi wrote back then<\/a> of relations with Hungary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/07\/world\/asia\/orban-hungary-china-xi.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary met with China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday, courting another authoritarian partner after talks with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Moscow last week. In announcing Mr. Orban\u2019s visit to Beijing, China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency said only that Mr. Xi would hold an \u201cin-depth discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/08\/multimedia\/08china-orban-wqpc\/08china-orban-wqpc-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168,8329,1891,1378,75135,209,66,76508],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89976,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89974\/revisions\/89976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}