Watch: Hungarians Are "Not Anti-Chinese, But They Have Concerns"

  • 10 Jun 2021 12:59 PM
Watch: Hungarians Are "Not Anti-Chinese, But They Have Concerns"
Hungary has witnessed unprecedented demonstrations against government plans to set up a campus of China's Fudan University in the capital Budapest.

But the protests seem to reflect multiple concerns: about the lack of transparency surrounding the project including the cost, and disquiet about the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban with elections due next year, reports  StratNewsGlobal.


MTI Photo: Zoltán Balogh

 

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