If you put Canada at one end of a scale of political freedom and China at the other, Hungary would be closer to China on that scale than to Canada. Hungary effectively no longer has an independent media or judiciary.
https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...ocracy/609313/
If the EU can’t muster the will to push back against authoritarian countries inside their own federation, countries that are weak economically and reliant on EU aid, how will they confront China?