According to Russian media reports, Hungarian Foreign Minister Siardo delivered a speech on how to ensure Hungary's interests in the emerging world.
Siyaldo pointed out that the economic integration of China and the West has become an established fact, and confrontation is not worth it, and no amount of confrontation can change the fact. Sialdo said that now, the wind of major transformation of the world economy must be blowing from the East.
In addition to mentioning China's economy, Siyaldo also mentioned Russian energy. Without Russian energy, he said, Europe would have no energy supply security.
Siyaldo mentions the overlooked concept that energy supply requires not only energy sources, but also transportation, and as long as gas cannot be transported by train, Europe cannot get rid of its dependence on Russian energy.
Previously, European countries were more concerned about market factors, trying to reduce the amount of natural gas imported from Russia, and then find alternative sellers from the Middle East and Africa, or simply buy high-priced liquefied natural gas from the United States.
There is a difference between liquefied natural gas and natural gas, liquefied natural gas belongs to secondary energy, and natural gas belongs to primary energy. Like Russia through the pipeline to transport to the European region of natural gas, is the right natural gas, belongs to the primary energy, after the extraction, directly transported to Europe, not only convenient, the most critical is the low cost of transportation, the cost of transportation is low, the cost of use will naturally decline.
The natural gas exported by the United States to Europe is liquefied natural gas, and the kind of ship with a big ball and writes LNG is specially used to transport liquefied natural gas. Liquefied natural gas is not bad, it can also generate electricity, is widely used in the world, and is also a clean energy source.
The key problem is that LNG is much more expensive than ordinary natural gas.
Liquefied natural gas is not directly mined, but after the extraction of natural gas is purified, it is finally converted into liquefied natural gas after a series of low-temperature liquefaction processes.
The process of liquefaction of natural gas requires a lot of costs, and there will be losses, after liquefaction, the cost of transportation will also increase, compared to pipeline transportation, the freight cost of freight transport by freight ship is much higher. This is not the end, the party that buys LNG also has to prepare supporting receiving and storage equipment. Inside and out, the cost is quite high.
Therefore, the geographical location is doomed, and European countries cannot import large quantities of natural gas from distant countries for a long time. Several major countries in the European Union have been talking about 5 years to get rid of dependence on Russian gas, which is actually a stopgap measure, because the leaders of these countries have basically been working for less than 5 years, so they have promised haphazardly.
It is almost impossible for European countries to get rid of Russian gas, because the cooperation between the two sides began in the Soviet period, which took decades to establish cooperation, and on the entire European continent, natural gas pipelines are spread throughout various countries, and even Ukraine, which is fighting with Russia, is using Russian gas, how can European countries not use it at all?
China's market and Russia's energy are the core fuel for the development of the European Union, and EU countries obtain cheap energy from Russia and then export the goods they produce to China, which is the core economic model of Europe. However, now some European countries, while clamoring to decouple from Russian energy, are also planning to decouple from China's economy, completely ignoring the interests of the European people.
The EU was originally highly complementary to Russia, and both sides took what they needed, mutual benefit and win-win results; If you are going in the same direction as China, there are also many areas where you can cooperate, and deep cooperation has been established. The EU's cooperation with China and Russia is beneficial and harmless, and it is precisely because these cooperation is beneficial to the EU that the United States will undermine the EU's relations with China and Russia and avoid the United States itself being isolated.
Now, European countries should consider their own interests rather than prioritizing the interests of the United States, Hungary is a typical example, Hungary insists on its own independent diplomatic approach, and without succumbing to the United States, Hungary is not worried about insufficient energy. If the EU wants to truly achieve independence, it should learn from Hungary.