Agreement with Budapest raises fears of Beijing’s growing influence in Europe
  • Aria@lemmygrad.ml
    132·
    8 months ago

    Is there a source without links to the regime in the UK? The UK is considered a ‘systemic rival’ to the EU by the EU, so any claims by UK state-affiliated media should be viewed through a lens of foreign propaganda.

    Hungary’s interior ministry claimed the deal would improve safety in tourist hotspots or during events that attract large numbers of spectators

    Okay so reading between the lines, it’s about tourist services and has no impact on 99.9% of the country?

    But the plan has drawn criticism from those concerned the agreement will be abused by communist China,

    Who are these people?

    which has a lengthy record of human rights abuses.

    Which abuses?

    The patrols could be the first step to establishing secret police stations or used to intimidate the overseas Chinese community, they warned.

    Based on what? Who warned? Who are they?

    Daniel Freund: Orban is showing his true colours: deep red. There’s nothing to learn from a communist dictatorship except for tyranny and totalitarian control of citizens.

    Viktor Orban is a communist actually, says their expert. For more insight into the overwhelming intellect of their expert, I present to you his pinned tweet. https://nitter.poast.org/daniel_freund/status/1766097991180382216#m
    Note this expert is not the ‘they’ from earlier.

    There are also deep-seated EU anxieties about Beijing’s use of surveillance and its human rights record with the Uighurs.

    From who? Your readers certainly, but anyone who follows world affairs knows that their ‘human rights record with the Uighurs’ is completely clean. Since they can’t publish that conspiracy theory any more, now they just hope you infer it.

    There’s a link “Similar deals were struck with Italy”, and then they’re just in uniform.

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    But the article keeps saying “secret police”, including in this article

    102 secret Chinese police stations

    And then the article just kinda becomes China Bad.

    It was the first European country to sign up to the Chinese belt-and-road initiative: an investment programme that leverages China’s global influence.

    It leverages China’s construction and project management expertise, because it’s an infrastructure programme.

    In October last year, Mr Orban controversially shook hands with Vladimir Putin at a belt-and-road event in Beijing.

    That’s his job. You shake the hands of the other world leaders when you go to official functions.

    • Hooverx@lemm.ee
      53·
      8 months ago

      By Western standards, China’s record on human rights with respect to Uyghurs is not clean. However, it’s no more dirty than China’s record on human rights with respect to Han.

      Turns out, Western standards look down on things like collectivism and the common good in favour of individual rights and privileges.

      Western criticism of the one child policy, for example, is the exact same thing as Western criticism of government-imposed family planning on Uyghurs: by Western standards, the government should only impose family planning policy through economic levels, never legally enforceable ones.