China hopes to deepen law enforcement and security ties with Hungary as the two mark their 75th year of diplomatic relations, Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong told Orban last week, the official Xinhua news agency said.

The two countries would also encompass security and law enforcement capacity building under President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to link China with the world through trade and infrastructure links.

Hungary is the only NATO state that has not ratified Sweden’s application to join the security bloc. China has been critical of NATO, especially after the bloc said last year that Beijing had challenged its interests, security and values with its “ambitions and coercive policies”.

Chinese state media have called NATO a “grave” challenge to global peace and stability.