Hungary PM Magyar calls Szijjártó’s BYD deal corruption — and says he has the paperwork to prove it

“Contracting with the Chinese global giant BYD is equivalent to entering the service of the Chinese Communist Party,” Magyar stated …

The Prime Minister said that the “mafia’s former lords of life and death are fleeing one by one from the sinking ship, while the mafia boss watches a football match in the USA with his family and his oligarchs.”

Holding sheets of paper in the video, Péter Magyar declared that he had in his hands the agreement that Péter Szijjártó had recently signed regarding support for the Chinese company. “This is called corruption in every European country — and the most outrageous kind at that,” he said.

“But what has Orbán and Szijjártó been lying about for years?” the Prime Minister asked. That they are working solely in the interest of Hungarians and for Hungary’s sovereignty. “It has now become clear to everyone that not a single word of this was true. With Szijjártó’s defection today, a world of lies has shattered into pieces. What everyone had already suspected has today become certainty,” he stated, adding that Péter Szijjártó had never represented Hungarian interests, but the interests of foreigners.

He continued: it has now become clear to everyone why he had been lobbying on behalf of Chinese car and battery manufacturers, sacrificing Hungarian water and risking the health of the Hungarian people. “Another hypocritical Fidesz lie has been shattered today.”

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Yeah, now imagine someone would display the same level of opposition against the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. It wouldn’t go that well.

I posted the original article in this thread as well as an article on the same topic, here again:

Original article by CCC (in German)

And:

China Holds a Kill Switch to European Power Grids (May 2025)

Despite years of debate about supply chain resilience, more than 70 percent of world’s solar inverters come from Chinese manufacturers. The three biggest players – Huawei, Sungrow, and Ginlong Solis – are all Chinese. Here lies the first paradox: Huawei has been banned from a large portion of Europe’s 5G networks due to national security concerns, yet its technology is welcomed into the power grid.

The right-wingers are active in Germany, too. There’s no difference between far-right and far-left extremism. Both is violence, both does no good, it helps no one.

Here is the article by CCC (in German)

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China Holds a Kill Switch to European Power Grids (May 2025)

Despite years of debate about supply chain resilience, more than 70 percent of world’s solar inverters come from Chinese manufacturers. The three biggest players – Huawei, Sungrow, and Ginlong Solis – are all Chinese. Here lies the first paradox: Huawei has been banned from a large portion of Europe’s 5G networks due to national security concerns, yet its technology is welcomed into the power grid.

Instead of 2045, Germany should adopt the European target year of 2050 … Germany’s current special path of aiming to become climate-neutral five years earlier than the European Union makes the country more expensive as a business location without achieving any additional climate impact.

It would be better if the world would move toward the German goal rather than the other way around.

But the world doesn’t seem to want that, particularly the world’s biggest emitters: the U.S. seems to quit any emissions reductions at all, and China aims to reach carbon neutrality in 2060, ten years later than the EU (yet China is hailed as the global leader in climate change actions).

The world isn’t on a good path, but I somehow feel Germany isn’t the biggest problem here.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

The contamination exceeds more than 13,000 times the permitted level. There’s nothing good here. It’s not even bad. It’s a human disaster.

Europe (and its like-minded allies) need to re-industrialize and manufacture these things on its own soil not ‘only’ to de-risk its economy but also to produce under social and environmental rules that protect the people and the environment. The Chinese government doesn’t give a sh*t about that.

Yes, I read this. Lula isn’t so serious about protecting human rights as he claims to be. I hope Europe shows more consistency.

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What the link doesn’t say why Brazil put China’s BYD on list of shame for workers’ past slavery-like conditions

Chinese workers hired by Jinjiang in Brazil had to hand over their passports to their new employer, let most ​of their wages be sent directly to China, and fork over an almost $900 deposit that they could only get back after ‌six ⁠months’ work, according to a labor contract …

A raid by labor inspectors also found the laborers living crammed in lodgings without mattresses. Thirty-one workers were crammed in a single house with only one bathroom and food piled up on the ground alongside personal belongings, in what inspectors said were “degrading conditions.”

It’s not difference to BYD Hungary, and it’s reportedly even worse at BYD’s Chinese factories.