Hungary
Hungary’s Toxic Chinese Factories
Hungary has become the second-largest manufacturer of batteries in the EU, thanks to massive Chinese investment. But locals say they were not consulted about the polluting factories, which are destroying their land and their health, while the secretive agreements with Beijing push the country further into China’s sphere of influence.
A Global Right-Wing Conclave
I suspect this will be my last CPAC, not because I’m unwilling to report on it again, but because I would likely be thrown out of future events. If the “nationalist populist” leaders ever did consider me a journalist, they certainly won’t anymore. I left CPAC full of existential dread.