The Chinese leader met with Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, one of China’s most fervent admirers and protectors in Europe.
The announcement underscores the threat to European and U.S. automakers posed by Chinese electric-vehicle manufacturers.
A $7.8 billion factory planned by a Chinese company in eastern Hungary has become divisive even within the party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who championed it.
El dinero no puede comprar admiración, pero sí puede comprar poder político.
Technology titans are missing that old adulation.