Donald Trump Jnr told a business forum in Budapest that Hungary and the region should pick the US over China as its economic partner, according to the Portfolio news website.
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Trump Jnr, who’s holding a roadshow headlined “Trump Business Vision 2025”, said China posed a bigger threat than Russia to the region, according to the business site, which helped organise the closed-door meeting late on Friday with Hungarian entrepreneurs.
US President Donald Trump’s eldest son, who’s also an executive vice-president of the Trump Organization, hailed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s nationalist vision and underscored the close ties between the two countries’ leaders, Portfolio reported.
At the same time, his call to shun China is likely to sit uncomfortably in Hungary and other parts of eastern Europe, which have opened up their economies to investments from the Asian nation.
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Orban has attracted billions of dollars of investments from China, including in the battery sector and the electric vehicle industry, with BYD Co. building a factory in Hungary’s south. Hungary and Serbia are also constructing a Budapest-Belgrade freight line, which is part of China’s belt and road global infrastructure initiative.
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