Joint programme seeds collaborations between social scientists in Australia and China, despite troubled times
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Travel restrictions in 2020, alongside escalating geopolitical tensions, may have dented academic links between Australia and China but one connection still going strong is the Joint Action Program between the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).