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Foreign students lose hope of return amid COVID outbreaks

From University World News: “The outlook has darkened for international students shut out of China since March 2020 … An initial batch of international students, those enrolled at two Sino-US joint venture universities – Duke Kunshan University in Jiangsu province close to Shanghai, and New York University Shanghai – who have been stranded abroad since January 2020, had been told in November to prepare to return but wait for the go-ahead. But those hopes and the hopes of all international students are now receding, with major outbreaks in a number of cities … The vast majority of international students, numbering over 400,000, have been given no indication when they can return.”

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