Street Name
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Budapest renames streets in protest against Chinese university
Budapest’s mayor announced on Wednesday that streets in the Hungarian capital will be renamed in protest of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government’s intentions to build a Chinese institution there, which he described as an “unwanted” initiative. The new street names are all about China’s alleged human rights violations.
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This Street has Our Name
Few years ago, when I was driving up the hills of Ithaca towards Cornell university, I stumbled upon a street name out of the blue called the Tibet Road. A quiet corner of a single lane road it was, surrounded by the usual quietness of the nature and probably punctuated by the frequent crossing of…