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Bridge or Border: Why Scientific Securitization Won't Make Nations Safe - The Wire China

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Forcing scientists to choose between the U.S. and China will reduce the world’s ability to withstand shared threats.

By Zilan Qian - March 15, 2026 Politics Science Security Yu Li, a professor and researcher at the School of Life Sciences of Yunnan University leads students during a lab. Credit: School of Life Sciences of Yunnan University August 1934, China. A young graduate from Shanghai Jiaotong University won a prestigious scholarship and departed for the United States to pursue a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering at MIT. A year later, his cousin — who shared the same grandfather, alma mater, and scholarship — followed him to the same school for the same degree. By 1937, shortly after their gra

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