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'Enormous hypocrisy': Hungary blasts US' warnings on the dangers of dealing with Russia or China
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Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto speaks during a joint news conference with the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in Budapest, Hungary, on February 11, 2019. © Reuters / Tamas Kaszas

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US State Secretary Mike Pompeo's quest to scare Hungary away from dealing with Russia and China appears to have turned sour, as Budapest said it's fed up with lectures about its foreign policy.
Pompeo is on a five-day massive charm offensive in Eastern Europe seeking to "make up" for the time the US "shunned" the nations of the region "in a way that drove them to fill a vacuum with folks who didn't share our values," as he himself put it.
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His first stop was Hungary, a country that no US State Secretary had visited since 2011. And Budapest has been dangerously leaning towards Moscow and Beijing, according to Washington.
"We must not let [Russian President Vladimir] Putin drive a wedge between friends in NATO," Pompeo stated passionately, at a joint press conference with the Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, claiming that the US and its allies "know all too well from history" that "that Russia will never be a friend to the freedom and sovereignty of smaller nations."
He did not focus his attention solely on the Kremlin, though, and promptly warned his Hungarian counterpart about the dangers of working with China, by saying that "Beijing's handshake comes with strings … that will leave Hungary indebted both economically and politically."

Szijjarto retorted to Pompeo's lecturing that "the world is not going to be a better place if some countries spend their time intervening in the internal political affairs of other countries." He insisted that Budapest can have transparent relations with Moscow and Beijing and the West, and said it was an "enormous hypocrisy" that Hungary is singled out for its ties with Moscow.
"There is a lot of criticism on the surface, and below the surface there is a lot of trade between Europe and Russia in billions of euros," he said.
"Cooperation with Russia or China that does not harm us," he added, explaining that any such economic ties do not make Hungary a less reliable NATO partner.
Pompeo's trip to Eastern Europe comes after US withdrawal from the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which might have soured relations between the US and its allies across the Atlantic, as it revived the possibility of a new arms race and greatly raised the stakes of a potential standoff between Washington and Moscow in Europe – especially at the expense of the European states.

The trip looks like a massive lobbying campaign aimed at advancing the interests of Washington as well as those of the all-powerful US military industrial complex. Budapest has pledged an unspecified deal to buy more US-made weapons.
Pompeo will then go to Slovakia, which recently "selected the F-16 as its next generation fighter." He will also visit Poland, where he will, among other events, take part in a conference on the Middle East, an effort to build a coalition against Iran.
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Pompeo is also trying to discourage European nations from even thinking about working with the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei in developing their national G5 networks, as Washington and Beijing are, apparently, involved in some sort of a turf war.
"We want to make sure we identify [to] them the opportunities and the risks of using that equipment," Pompeo told journalists in Budapest, speaking of the expansion of Huawei Technologies.
"We have seen this all around the world, it also makes it more difficult for America to be present," the US State Secretary said. "If that equipment is co-located where we have important American systems, it makes it more difficult for us to partner alongside them."

 

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Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, talks as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens, during a joint press conference after their meeting in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Pompeo is in Budapest on the ... more >


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By Matthew Lee - Associated Press - Monday, February 11, 2019

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The United States may be forced to scale back certain operations in Europe and elsewhere if countries continue to do business with the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday in a new warning that underscores U.S. concerns about the firm.

In Budapest on the first leg of a five-nation European tour during which he is raising American concerns about China and Russia’s growing influence in Central Europe, Pompeo said nations would have to consider choosing between Huawei and the United States. The warning was broad but pointedly delivered in Hungary, a NATO ally and European Union member where Huawei is a major player.

“They are a sovereign nation,” Pompeo said of Hungary. “They get to make their own decisions. What is imperative is that we share with them the things we know about the risks that Huawei’s presence in their networks present — actual risks to their people, to the loss of privacy protections for their own people, to the risk that China will use this in a way that is not in the best interest of Hungary.”

The U.S. has been warning countries about the risks of Chinese telecom technology as governments choose providers for the rollout of “5G” wireless Internet, which will enable faster download speeds but also greater connectivity among devices.

Pompeo says the presence of Chinese telecom infrastructure could drive a technological wedge between the U.S. and some allies.

“It also makes it more difficult for America to be present,” Pompeo said. “That is, if that equipment is co-located where we have important American systems, it makes it more difficult for us to partner alongside them.”



Pompeo said he had raised the concerns with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto and would also do so with nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been criticized for seeking closer ties with Russia and China and for increasingly authoritarian rule at home.

“We want to make sure we identify (to) them the opportunities and the risks with using that equipment. And then they will get to make their decisions,” Pompeo said.

The U.S. has repeatedly accused China of using technology to pilfer trade secrets. China recently has said that it’s “totally unreasonable” to make some of these accusations and that the U.S. is just trying to suppress a rising competitor.

At a news conference with Pompeo, Szijjarto acknowledged that Huawei is present in Hungary but played down its position in the market. He also made the point repeatedly that Hungary accounts for only 1.2 percent of European Union trade with China.

“This does not endanger us from being an ally,” Szijjarto said.

Pompeo will take the same message about Huawei to his next stop, Slovakia, on Tuesday, before heading to Poland, where he will participate in a conference on the future of the Middle East expected to focus on Iran. He will wrap up the tour with brief stops in Belgium and Iceland.

Pompeo said he hoped to reverse what he called a decade of U.S. disengagement in Central Europe that created a vacuum Russia and China have exploited. Over the course of the past 10 years, he said, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leaders have become much more aggressive in the region and made inroads.

“We must not let Putin drive wedges between friends in NATO,” he said, adding that he had also warned of “the dangers of allowing China to gain a bridgehead in Hungary. Russia and China are authoritarian powers who do not share our joint aspirations of freedom.”

President Donald Trump’s administration has made a point of reaching out to Orban, who shares Trump’s strong stance on limiting migration and has adopted increasingly authoritarian measures, including cracking down on the opposition, labor unions, independent media and academia.

The administration of Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, had largely steered clear of Orban, who won a third consecutive term last year in a campaign based on anti-immigration policies and whose policies have been met with street protests and deepening concern within the EU.

Pompeo put the blame for much of the backsliding on a lack of U.S. engagement.

“I think for a long time we shunned them in a way that drove them to fill the vacuum with folks who didn’t share our values,” he said. “The Russians and the Chinese ended up getting more influence here, they do not remotely share the American ideals that we care so deeply about.”

Pompeo was given a list of concerns in a meeting with Hungarian civic leaders. Some of their groups have been targeted by legislation making their work more difficult, like a tax on funds received from abroad and the possible jail time for those convicted of aiding asylum seekers. Three groups that took part said they believed Pompeo would bring them to Orban.

“The meeting and the openness to the opinion of the civic groups again demonstrated that the American leadership is committed to the defense of the values of the rule of law and the role of civil society,” the groups said in a statement.

Last month, Orban said he wanted “anti-immigration forces” to become a majority in all European Union institutions, including its Parliament and the EU’s executive Commission, and predicted that there would soon be two civilizations in Europe - one “that builds its future on a mixed Islamic and Christian coexistence” and another in Central Europe that would be only Christian.

Orban’s government has been targeted for criticism, including from the U.S., for forcing a Budapest-based university founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros to move most of its programs to Vienna. His fiery rhetoric against migrants and refusal to join a new European Union public prosecutor’s office focusing on fraud and corruption have also raised concerns.

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Associated Press writer Pablo Gorondi contributed to this report.




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Did the United States Give Hungary ‘Orders’ on Policy toward China and Russia?
January 29, 2019

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HUNGARY -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend the opening ceremony of the 2017 World Judo Championships at the Papp Laszlo Budapest Sports Arena in Budapest, August 28, 2017
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“(The Wall Street Journal) noted that the head of the government (Hungary’s Orban) has been receiving orders (from the U.S.) to counter Chinese cyber espionage and support Ukraine as a counter to Russia.”
Source: RIA Novosti, January 28, 2019
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The WSJ article did not use words like “received orders.”
Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency published a news item on Monday, January 28 headlined: “The prime minister of Hungary refused to put pressure on Russia on the demand of the United States.”
The article referred to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article headlined “Hungary Bucks U.S. Push to Curb Russian and Chinese Influence,” published the same day.

Hungary -- Thousands of Hungarians rally chanting "Europe, not Moscow" in support of the EU and against Hungary's prime minister, whom protesters said is too close to Russia, in Budapest, May 1, 2017
Polygraph.info found that RIA Novosti’s rendering of the Wall Street Journal article differed significantly from the original, even though RIA Novosti put quotation marks around some phrases as if they were direct translations.
For instance, RIA Novosti wrote: “(The Wall Street Journal) noted that the head of the government (Hungary’s Orban) has received orders (from the U.S.) to counter Chinese cyber espionage and support Ukraine as a counter to Russia.”
However, the Wall Street Journal actually wrote: “In recent weeks, the U.S. has sought to rally fellow NATO members to take firmer steps to counter potential Chinese cyber-espionage and for months has been pushing the alliance to step up its backing for Ukraine in the country’s running confrontation with Russia.”
Timothy Lemmer, the Wall Street Journal’s letters editor, told Polygraph.info via email. “What we published doesn't contain the words ‘receiving orders’,"
In describing the U.S. actions, the newspaper used such verbs as “push,” “pressure” and “persuade,” but none of those words translates into Russian as “order.”

“The U.S. government doesn't ‘order’ other countries to do things. It does, through diplomatic channels, encourage other countries to adopt certain policies,” former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer told Polygraph.info.

Steven Pifer, former U.S. Ambassador and Brookings Institute Expert in Prague, CZ
Pifer believes it is “entirely plausible” that in recent months the United States has urged the Hungarian government to take steps to protect itself against Chinese cyber espionage and to support Ukraine against Russian aggression.
“Hungary has been weak on those issues,” Pifer said.
“But a senior Hungarian official said Mr. Orban strongly objects to U.S. pressure aimed at curbing the influence of Moscow and Beijing in Europe,” the WSJ reported, still falling well short of Ria Novosti’s assertion that the U.S. 'ordered' the Hungarian government to take action.

HUNGARY -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban waves during his speech outside the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, March 15, 2018 during celebrations of the Hungarian national holiday.
As for the RIA Novosti’s mistranslation of the WSJ article, Pifer calls it “deliberate” and intended “to support a Kremlin propaganda line” that the United States controls its NATO allies and other European partners.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has told U.S. diplomats that he wants his country to be “neutral, like Austria,” the Wall Street Journal reported. However, it also quoted unnamed close allies of Orban as saying “he wants to remain a troop-contributing member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and values the security Hungary gets from the alliance.”

 

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US warns of Huawei’s growing influence over eastern Europe

Secretary of state Mike Pompeo begins diplomatic push to curb China’s ambitions in region






The potential for Chinese intelligence services to use Huawei to snoop on host countries has emerged as a central concern for Washington © Reuters








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The US has warned of the growing influence of Chinese telecoms company Huawei in central and eastern Europe as it launches a diplomatic push to curb Beijing’s ambitions in the region.
Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state, is due to visit Hungary, Slovakia and Poland this week in a sign of Washington’s fears over inroads made by Beijing through business deals and infrastructure investment.
The potential for Chinese intelligence services to use Huawei to snoop on host countries has emerged as a central concern for Washington in its broader strategic tussle with Beijing and Moscow in eastern states of the EU. Huawei has strongly denied it is vulnerable to such interference.
US officials said in a briefing that the “large number of small and mid-sized states” in central and eastern Europe, many of whom “have a higher propensity for corruption”, could allow China to “penetrate key sectors” and exert influence within the EU.
“We are more concerned about the Chinese presence, the Huawei presence, in central and eastern Europe than in western Europe,” a senior administration official said.
The US justice department last month issued a criminal indictment that accused Huawei of stealing American technology and breaking US sanctions against Iran. Huawei has denied any wrongdoing.
Washington’s concerns have made waves in central Europe. Poland last month arrested a Huawei employee on suspicion of spying — prompting the Chinese company to fire him for bringing it into disrepute, and stress that his alleged actions had “no relation” to the company. The Czech Republic effectively shut Huawei out of public tender following a warning from the country’s cyber security watchdog.
Zhang Ming, China’s ambassador to the EU, last month hit out at the “slander” and “discrimination” allegedly faced by Huawei and other Chinese companies in Europe.
Polish officials see the US as crucial to their national security, particularly in light of Russia’s renewed assertiveness, and hope to persuade the US to establish a permanent military base in the country.
In a further sign of Poland’s determination to stay close to Washington, Warsaw will this week co-host a conference with the US on the Middle East that is viewed with suspicion in other EU states. Local observers said the arrest of the Huawei employee was also part of Poland’s effort to cement relations with the US.
“It has the potential to disrupt Polish-Chinese relations — so the reason behind this decision, taken at the highest governmental level, must have been more important than keeping a good relationship with China,” said Grzegorz Malecki, a former head of Poland’s foreign intelligence service who works for the country’s Institute of Security and Strategy think-tank.
However, Czech president Milos Zeman has warned that moves against the Chinese company would hurt his country’s economic interests. Slovakia’s prime minister, Peter Pellegrini, also said last month that he did not consider the Chinese group a threat, and warned politicians should “be careful not to become a tool in a trade war or fight between competitors”.

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China has long made overtures to central and eastern European countries through its 16+1 grouping, which includes 11 EU members. Beijing has denied it wants to use the initiative as a Trojan horse to split the EU, tempting member states to its orbit by financing the building of roads, power stations and other infrastructure.
The US says the 16+1 initiative “underscores the importance” of central and eastern European nations in “Chinese global strategic plans”. Observers say Washington could try to lever emerging dissatisfaction in some 16+1 countries, including Poland, over the quality and value of some Beijing-backed projects.
The US administration said on Friday that it would increase its wider US diplomatic, commercial, military and culture engagement in central Europe, and hoped to offer an “alternative” to China and Russia.
“Our view is that this is overdue and needed, and it has been in part the lack of robust US engagement over the past decade or so in central Europe that has created vacuums that China and Russia have very readily filled,” an official said.