What would China NOT allow? European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) asked residents of 12 EU countries, including citizens of Hungary The results of the survey have just been made public and interesting data has emerged, as can be seen in the graphic. (Great Britain was also included in the statistics.)

From left to right, the ECFR was interested in the following. Would you allow China to invest in infrastructure in the EU, such as building bridges and ports? The most permissive were Poles (22 percent) and Hungarians (28 percent). Those who protested the most were the French (53 percent), followed by the Danes and the Dutch.

Can the Chinese buy a football club in the EU? This was the second question that we did not understand, because if they are Russian oligarchs.
Gulf billionaires and American investment companies can buy a soccer team, so why can't the Chinese? On this question, Hungary scored the average of the surveyed EU countries (39 percent). Interestingly, 60 percent of Germans would not allow this, the rest are roughly around the average.

Could the Chinese buy an EU tech company? The surveyed Hungarians do not consider this a concern (32 percent), compared to the average, which is 46 percent. However, German and French citizens are much more afraid of this (68 and 58 percent, respectively.)

Finally: can the Chinese buy newspaper publishers in Europe? The EU average of those surveyed is 52 percent, i.e. approximately the same number would fear it as would allow it. Here again, we are the most lenient with our 39 percent. The "Westerners", who are considered brainwashed by their own press, would be much more afraid of this. 69 percent of Germans and 61 percent of French and Danes believed that this should be prevented.

We have become even smarter, but - what was the purpose of this presumably not cheap survey made in several countries for the "European think tank"?

The question was answered by Wikipedia According to this, ECFR was founded 14 years ago by György Soros , through the Open Society Foundation, together with others. Since then, many people have supported them. Who are they?

The ECFR Council brought together more than 300 Europeans from all over Europe. Currently Carl Bildt , (former Prime Minister of Sweden), Lykke Friis (Danish politician, head of EUROPA think tank) and Norbert Röttgen (former German Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety). ECFR's strategic community members are foreign ministers, former prime ministers, members of national parliaments and the European Parliament (of course!…), EU commissioners, former NATO secretaries-general, thinkers, journalists and business leaders.

This is perhaps the cutest sentence from the Wikipedia article: "The Council is the strongest and most visible expression of the pan-European identity of the ECFR."
Of course, you can say that. Perhaps the point is that with American capital and a network of European strawmen, it is necessary to prevent China from having too much influence on Europe. And the survey itself is proof that the citizens themselves do not want this either. Except for recalcitrant Hungary, which needs to be regulated.

Let's add: state-sponsored anti-China is not fashionable in our country, so the press does not actively brainwash and incite public opinion against China...