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Fears for academia’s ‘peacemaker’ role, as China expertise wanes

China studies programmes and language courses are on the decline, just as understanding of the superpower is needed most

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What does Xi Jinping’s third term mean for Chinese science?

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We need China more than it needs us, Australian leaders warn

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