Expert calls for stronger educational partnerships

Cross-border collaboration in scholarship and idea generation should remain unabated despite efforts to decouple supply chains, said an education expert on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

"Now there is a growing focus in the United States on managing scholarly collaborations between US and Chinese universities and scholars. However, it is important that the decoupling of manufacturing supply chains does not extend to the decoupling of educational supply chains," John Quelch, executive vice-chancellor of Duke Kunshan University in Jiangsu province, told China Daily.

"In other words, cross-border exchanges, people-to-people exchanges, and scholarship should be, as always has been, international in scope," he said. Quelch's university is itself a joint project between Duke University in the US and China's Wuhan University.