Huge announcement: China to offer visa-free travel to Hungarians!

China will offer visa-free travel to Hungarians along with nationals from five other countries in Europe “on an experimental basis”, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday.

In addition to Hungary, China is offering visa-free travel to citizens of Switzerland, Ireland, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg from 14 March. The foreign minister expressed hope that more countries would ease visa rules for Chinese nationals, too.

“We hope that countries will work with us to build fast-travel networks for cross-border travel, and we will encourage the rapid resumption of international passenger flights, making it more convenient for Chinese citizens to travel abroad and for foreign friends to feel at home in China,” the foreign minister said.

Friendly ties between Hungary and China

“The European Union’s branding of our country as a partner, a competitor and a systemic rival is neither realistic nor sustainable,” he added. As Telex writes, according to Wang, “there are no fundamental conflicts of interest or geopolitical strategic contradictions between China and the European Union, and the two sides’ common interests far outweigh their differences.”

Relations between Hungary and the East Asian country have recently become increasingly friendly. As we reported yesterday, Chinese police will soon patrol with their Hungarian colleagues in Hungary. The Hungarian Ministry of Interior said that “police officers from the two countries will be able to jointly carry out patrols in the future, thus helping to improve communication between citizens and authorities of the two countries, improving internal security and public order.”

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