Thousands of people marched through Budapest on Saturday to protest against plans to open a Chinese university campus in Hungary. 

The protesters claim the project will undercut the country's own higher education and increase the influence of China's Communist authorities.

The cost is estimated to be $1.8 billion, which is more than the Orban government spent on its entire higher-education system in 2019.

Expected to be finished by 2024, it will be the first site of this kind in the European Union.