欧盟面临与中国的“经济冷战”风险，据匈牙利总理弗拉基米尔·欧尔班（Viktor Orbán）称。他誓言在投票中反对欧洲联盟拟议对从中国进口电动车实施的更高关税计划。
这一措施部分源自与中国政府补贴和北京向27个成员国输出绿色科技相关的大规模贸易争端。欧洲国家已预定在周五进行投票以确定这些关税是否生效。
预计投票将通过此决定，然而欧尔班表示，匈牙利将会反对这项决策，并警告说欧洲趋向经济保护主义的行为会摧毁欧盟的经济体系。
“他们让我们做的，欧盟正在做的事情，是一场‘经济冷战’。”欧尔班在国家广播中如是说，“这对欧洲来说是最糟糕的事情…如果持续这样下去，欧洲的经济将走向死亡。”
今年7月，欧盟宣布对来自中国的电动车征收最高达37.6%的临时关税，理由是中国政府补贴导致其产品不公平地受益。作为回应，中国于8月份向世界贸易组织提出申诉，指控这些关税违反了世贸规则并损害了全球气候合作。
同时，中国政府也对法国干邑和欧洲猪肉进行了报复性调查，有分析担心这可能导致与中国之间引发破坏性的贸易战。
在俄罗斯发动对乌克兰的战争以及担忧廉价中国产品可能扰乱西方市场的情况下，匈牙利在国内与俄罗斯保持紧密联系，而其西欧伙伴国则越来越寻求远离这些国家经济的关系。这一趋势加速了他们的行动。
另一方面，匈牙利一直在寻求北京的重大投资，并在全国范围内启动了一系列由中国制造的电动汽车电池工厂。去年年底，宣布比亚迪（中国最大的电动车制造商之一）将在匈牙利南部开设首个欧洲生产厂。
对于欧盟的保护主义措施，欧尔班说它对匈牙利出口导向型经济构成“巨大威胁”。他的政府主张一种“经济中立”政策，不考虑联盟或地缘政治因素，而是倾向于与所有愿意合作的国家进行贸易。
他认为，西方伙伴包括欧盟正在“攻击”匈牙利的政策，目的是“使匈牙利偏离经济中立的道路”。
“每一次的攻击背后，都是他们试图强迫匈牙利走向他们自己的、我认为没有增长、发展和未来的区域。”他补充道。
新闻来源：www.abcnews.go.com
原文地址：EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles are part of an ‘economic cold war,’ Hungary’s Orbán says
新闻日期：2024-10-04
原文摘要：
The European Union risks entering an “economic cold war” with China, Hungary's prime minister said on Friday, pledging to vote against an EU plan to impose higher tariffs on the import of Chinese electric vehicles. EU countries are set to vote on Friday whether to finalize the tariffs, part of a broader trade dispute over Chinese government subsidies and Beijing’s burgeoning exports of green technology to the 27-nation bloc. The tariffs are expected to pass the vote. But Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday that his country will oppose them, and warned that Europe's tendency toward economic protectionism would destroy the EU's economy. “What they're making us do, what the European Union is doing, is an economic cold war,” Orbán told state radio. “This is the worst thing that can happen to Europe. ... If this continues, the European economy will die,” he said. The EU in July imposed the provisional tariffs of up to 37.6% on EVs made in China, saying they unfairly benefit from government subsidies. Beijing, in response, filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization in August, saying the tariffs violate WTO rules and undermine global cooperation on climate change. China also launched retaliatory investigations into French cognac exports and European pork in what some analysts fear could develop into an economically harmful trade war with the EU. Hungary under Orbán has pursued close ties with China and Russia while its Western partners increasingly seek to distance their economies from those countries. Moscow's war in Ukraine and fears that a flood of inexpensive Chinese products could disrupt Western markets have accelerated those efforts. Meanwhile, Hungary has sought major investment from Beijing, opening a series of Chinese EV battery manufacturing plants across the country. Late last year, it announced that BYD, one of China's largest EV makers, will open its first European production factory in southern Hungary. Orbán on Friday said that EU protectionism represented a “huge danger” to Hungary's export-oriented economy. His government has declared a policy of “economic neutrality” that favors trade with all willing countries regardless of alliances or geopolitical considerations. He said Western partners including the EU had “attacked” Hungary over its policies in order to “divert it from the path of economic neutrality.” “What's behind every attack is that they're trying to ... force Hungary into the bloc where they are, where I think there is no growth, no development, no future,” he said.
