Viktor Orban, Xi Jinping And A Simple Question For The West Viktor Orban (left) inspecting medical supplies from China aboard a plane in Budapest - Tamas Kovacs/MTI Handout/Xinhua/ZUMA The basic precepts of democracy, recently on the line in Washington, have long been discarded by Europe Union member country Hungary. But is anyone pure on such questions these days? ROME — As the world watches Joe Biden's first days in the White House, Viktor Orbán is going strong in Hungary. You may remember he forced the liberal Central European University, founded by his favorite super-villain, George Soros, to leave Budapest between 2017 and 2018, in his quest to create an "illiberal democracy." Now Orbán has recently welcomed a new university to its capital: the Chinese University of Fudan.