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Short-term academic visits to China could sustain ties
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Your news article on the rising number of Asian and African PhD students in China (Nature https://doi.org/rtsq; 2026) highlights an important trend but overlooks a complementary pathway: short-term visiting programmes, now made much more accessible by China’s visa reforms.
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