Thousands of Hungarians have demonstrated in Budapest against a plan by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government to build a campus of a top Chinese university in the city.
Thousands of Hungarians have demonstrated in Budapest against a plan by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government to build a campus of a top Chinese university in the city.
But the sprawling project has fed unease about Hungary's diplomatic tilt from west to east and its soaring indebtedness to China, as well as sparked a diplomatic spat between Beijing and Budapest's liberal mayor.Leaked internal documents revealed that China is expected to give a €1.3bn loan to cover most of the estimated €1.5 billion costs.
With an opinion poll last week showing that a majority of Budapest residents oppose the plan, the capital's liberal mayor Gergely Karacsony has urged Mr Orban not to force unwanted projects on the city. It would also fit in with an older plan to build a"Student City" dormitory project for thousands of Hungarian students at the site, it insists, although Mr Karacsony, who is eyeing a run against Mr Orban at a general election next year, fears the Fudan campus would take over most of the area.
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