China has offered to deepen security cooperation with Hungary, underscoring Budapest’s warming ties with Beijing just as Hungarian officials snubbed a visiting delegation from Washington, Ednews reports citing the Guardian.
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, met China’s minister of public security, Wang Xiaohong, on Friday.
In comments published by China’s official Xinhua news agency over the weekend, Wang said he was hoping to “deepen cooperation in areas including counter-terrorism, combating transnational crimes, security and law enforcement capacity building under the belt and road initiative”.
The aim, according to the Chinese minister, would be “to make law enforcement and security cooperation a new highlight of bilateral relations”.
Hungary is a member of the EU and Nato, making China’s offer highly unusual.