China’s Xi Jinping to talk Ukraine, investment on last European stop Hungary

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Hungarian president Tamas Sulyok welcomed Chinese president Xi Jinping in the grounds of Budapest’s spectacular Buda Castle on Thursday on the third and final stop on Mr Xi’s first European tour in five years. Hungary under right-leaning prime minister Viktor Orban has become an important trade and investment partner for China, in contrast with some other EU nations that are considering becoming less dependent on the world’s second-largest economy. Mr Xi arrived in Budapest late on Wednesday after visiting France and Serbia. In Paris, president Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen pressed him to ensure more...