BUDAPEST — Thousands of Hungarians demonstrated in Budapest Saturday against a plan by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government to build a campus of a top Chinese university in the city.
Around 10,000 people, according to an AFP photographer, marched through the Hungarian capital to protest the proposed Fudan university campus which is planned for completion by 2024.
According to a deal signed between Hungary and the Shanghai-based university’s president, the campus, its first in Europe, would be a 500,000 sq meter (5m sq ft) complex.
But the sprawling project has fed unease about Hungary’s diplomatic tilt from west to east and its soaring indebtedness toChina, as well as s…
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