{"id":63942,"date":"2024-05-10T02:51:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/09\/hungary-rolls-out-red-carpet-for-xi-in-final-leg-of-european-tour"},"modified":"2024-05-10T02:51:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:51:42","slug":"hungary-rolls-out-red-carpet-for-xi-in-final-leg-of-european-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63942","title":{"rendered":"Hungary rolls out red carpet for Xi in final leg of European tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warm welcome for Chinese president contrasts with rest of EU, with up to 18 cooperation agreements expected  <\/p>\n<p>Hungary has rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping in a show of warmth that contrasts with wariness in the rest of the EU about China\u2019s stance on trade, global politics and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>On the third and final stop of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/04\/xi-jinping-visit-france-hungary-serbia-eu-trade-tariff-row\">first European tour<\/a> in five years, Xi was given a ceremonial welcome by Hungary\u2019s president, Tam\u00e1s Sulyok, at Buda Castle, in Budapest, before talks with Viktor Orb\u00e1n. The Hungarian prime minister, the EU\u2019s longest-serving leader, has sought to deepen ties with Beijing and blocked EU motions criticising China\u2019s human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/09\/hungary-rolls-out-red-carpet-for-xi-in-final-leg-of-european-tour\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm welcome for Chinese president contrasts with rest of EU, with up to 18 cooperation agreements expected  Hungary has rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping in a show of warmth that contrasts with wariness in the rest of the EU about China\u2019s stanc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[412,6,50,221,530,558,1228,2214,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belt-and-road-initiative","category-business","category-china","category-europe","category-european-union","category-global-economy","category-hungary","category-viktor-orban","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63943,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63942\/revisions\/63943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}