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As Americans and other foreign students have fled Chinese universities, the coronavirus outbreak is severing ties that have historically brought the country closer to the rest of the world https://nyti.ms/39zBYEp 1/
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Ryan Trombly is another. She left for a long-planned holiday just days before China started quarantining cities. She didn't say goodbye to her friends because she had planned to return a week later. “It’s funny because it really came out of the blue for a lot of us." 3
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For many foreign students like them, the outbreak has frozen or ended their opportunities to study a vast and complicated country. It comes at a fraught time for China’s relations with the world, as it seeks to build itself up as a counterweight to American global influence 4/
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“It’s a metaphor for the decoupling that is going on in the high technology, trade and investment realm, although for totally different reasons,” says
@orvilleschell. “All of those trends represent a wrenching of the fabric that was weaving a more cosmopolitan side of China.” 5/Deze collectie tonen -
For those who have stayed, life is quiet. “All the streets are empty and you can’t find anyone to talk to. It’s a little bit lonely” says Esma Dallakyan who is at Tsinghua in Beijing. But as a public health masters she's been getting a different kind of education these days 6/
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