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China Urged to Strengthen Border Studies Against Western Threats

12/24/2025

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Fan Enshi, a senior scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, urges China to build a knowledge system on border regions to counter Western threats.
In an article for Qiushi, he warns against de-Sinicisation in US-led narratives and calls for shifting from fragmented to systematic domestic theories.
He says global changes threaten China's border security and stability, and urges accelerated development of indigenous borderland studies, despite concepts remaining unclear.

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Fan Enshi, a senior scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, urges China to build a knowledge system on border regions to counter Western threats.
In an article for Qiushi, he warns against de-Sinicisation in US-led narratives and calls for shifting from fragmented to systematic domestic theories.
He says global changes threaten China's border security and stability, and urges accelerated development of indigenous borderland studies, despite concepts remaining unclear.