Former Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy spoke to CGTN Europe on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit in Hungary.
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00:00 Peter Magesy was the Prime Minister of Hungary in the early 2000s, overseeing the early stages of trade development with China.
00:08 He spoke to our correspondent, Pablo Guterres.
00:11 History started on the Silk Road, to have the relations with China and Hungary.
00:21 And we have some traditions, good traditions. And that 75 years we made diplomatic relations with China.
00:35 So in 2002-2003 started a new era of the relations between Hungary and China,
00:45 because we recognised in Hungary that China will be one of the most important powers in the world.
00:55 And we have to create good relations, economic, cultural, diplomatic, personal relations.
01:03 And I'm very, very happy to see that not only me, but my successors follow also this politics.
01:15 We have a lot of Chinese investment in Hungary, in the very important fields,
01:22 like the informatic technology, like Huawei, the accumulator production, chemical industry, and so on, and so on.
01:36 Now critics argue that Hungary's ties with China could undermine EU unity.
01:44 How do you respond to those concerns?
01:47 Me, I think more China, this is not less Europe. This is not a contradictory relation.
02:00 So to use the good relations with China gives us better position to developing and to have more important role in EU.
02:18 So I don't see really any contradiction between the relations with two very important groups.