At the edge of Szeged in southern Hungary, a new industrial presence is taking shape. Dozens of Chinese construction workers walk or cycle towards a supermarket beside a sprawling construction site, where
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A bizarre geopolitical thesis in the Indian media last week characterised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent 7-hour trip to Ukraine via Poland as part of an effort “to plug a missing link — Central
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