When China's leader, Xi Jinping, last visited Europe's formerly communist east in 2016, the president of the Czech Republic hosted him for a flag-bedecked, three-day state visit and offered his country as an unsinkable aircraft carrier for Chinese investment. That vessel has since sunk, scuppered by China's support for Russia in the war in Ukraine and bitter disappointment over projects that never materialized.
The Czechs, the Poles and nearly everyone else are really pissed at China because of the war, said Tamas Matura, a foreign relations scholar at Corvinus University of Budapest. But in Hungary that is not a problem, at least not for the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Mr. Matura said.
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