Students will attend a graduate institution in China that is administered jointly by academic organizations that are worlds apart figuratively and literally.

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That will slowly, over the years, create a real network, if you will, if people who, because they've had this common experience, can deal with each other very easily and, you know, be kind of a rallying point—an old boy, old girl network, as it were.

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