Nearly half a million foreign students — mostly from Africa and parts of Asia — went to universities in China. Then, COVID-19 hit. They thought they’d be away from campus for a while. But now, thousands of international students are still shut out and Chinese authorities are not making things easy. The World’s Rebecca Kanthor reports from Shanghai.
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