China calls for overseas education ventures in push for tech advancement

China calls for overseas education ventures in push for tech advancement

As part of a 10-year plan to transform China into a global education superpower, Beijing has encouraged joint projects involving overseas universities with highly ranked science and technology programmes to help boost the country’s self-reliance in cutting-edge fields. The government called on local authorities to “enhance high-quality international collaborations in academia, industry and research” while…

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After US university cuts China ties, experts worry over ‘continued downturn’ in exchanges

After US university cuts China ties, experts worry over ‘continued downturn’ in exchanges

The end of a decade-long partnership between a leading public research university in the United States and China’s Tianjin University was a “direct consequence” of a US strategy to decouple from China in hi-tech fields, and a worrying sign of dwindling academic exchanges between the two countries, analyst have warned. The Georgia Institute of Technology…

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