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Sat Jun 5, 2021, 08:15 PM Jun 2021

Hungarians protest against planned Chinese university campus

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Thousands of Hungarians, some of them holding banners declaring "Treason", protested on Saturday against a Chinese university's plans to open a campus in Budapest.

Liberal opponents of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban accuse him of cosying up to China, and fear the campus could undercut the quality of higher education and help Beijing increase its influence in Hungary and the European Union.

"I do not agree with our country's strengthening feudal relationship with China," Patrik, a 22-year-old student who declined to give his full name, said at the protest in the Hungarian capital.

He said funds should be used "to improve our own universities instead of building a Chinese one."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hungarians-protest-against-planned-chinese-university-campus/ar-AAKJWOc

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