(9 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Budapest – 9 May 2024
1. Various of supporters of Chinese President Xi Jinping posing for photos
2. Wide of people Chinese waving flags
3. Pan of Hungarian military band marching through
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gao Xiang, Chinese worker in Hungary from Bengbu, Anhui province:
"We think Mr. Xi Jinping is a great president, great.”
5. Mid of a Chinese woman waving her national flag
6. Mid of a Chinese woman waving Hungarian flag
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gao Xiang, Chinese worker in Hungary from Bengbu, Anhui province:
"He’s a great leader, not only in economy, but also others. We think that Mr. Xi Jinping can bring us, our life, better and better.”
8. Wide of supporters of Chinese president
9. Various of Hungarian guards of honor marching
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Gao Xiang, Chinese worker in Hungary from Bengbu, Anhui province:
"We have factory here, and we are being near our market. And we think that Chinese factories, Chinese companies develop better and better. We hope that our companies can develop in the world, and not only in China.”
11. Wide of supporters of Chinese president with Hungarian and Chinese flags
12. Wide of Hungarian police closing a road
13. Various of police stopping traffic
14. Wide of supporters of Chinese president walking with their national flags
STORYLINE:
Some members of Hungary’s Chinese community travelled to Budapest on Thursday to show support for Chinese President Xi Jinping who is visiting.
Xi arrived to Hungary’s capital yesterday for talks with Hungarian officials which are expected to result in further Chinese investments in the Central European country.
"We think Mr. Xi Jinping is a greater president. He’s a great leader, not only in the economy, but also in others. We think that Mr. Xi Jinping can bring our life better and better.”, said Gao Xiang, a Xi supporter.
Gao Xiang works for a Chinese factory in Szolnok, central Hungary and traveled to Budapest to show his support.
Xi, who arrived in Hungary late Wednesday, will hold talks later in the day with Hungary’s right-leaning Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Beijing is a big investor in Hungary and sees the EU member country as an important foothold inside the 27-member trading bloc.
Hungary is the first EU member to participate in Xi’s signature Belt and Road Initiative that seeks to build billions of dollars of roads, ports, power plants and other infrastructure across Asia, Africa and beyond.
Orbán was the only EU leader to attend a conference in Beijing on the BRI, which has been criticized for burying participating countries in debt and failing to deliver on promised investments, something that prompted Italy to drop out last year.
AP video by: Bela Szandelszky
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