Viktor Orbán’s Hungary Abandons Hong Kong

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE

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fter the Chinese Communist Party ground its jackboot on a number of democracy activists in Hong Kong last month — sentencing them to prison terms ranging from eight to 16 months, for the newly posited crime of peaceful protest — the European Union prepared to issue a statement of criticism. But to do so would have required the agreement of all 27 member states, and one refused: Hungary.

So the EU tried again earlier this month. As the South China Morning Post reports, the member states’ foreign ministers were set to discuss…