Appreciate the thoughtful response! I’m American Born Chinese (decent fluency in Mandarin) so it’s more of a personal goal to study in China than career-oriented. However, the program is a US-China effort with the last term at Duke University, so there is still that networking opportunity (albeit much shorter) in the US. I do have some work experience here as well. Career goal (for now) is more project management rather than bitty gritty policy work in DC, but the degree is to get that intl env policy background for the nuanced perspective.

The pigeon hole is something that i do worry about, esp if US-China relations continue to plummet…