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Next week is going to be the most emotional week of my life. Be ready emotional outlet forum! 

I just talked with a professor on committee in UCSD. She said NO OFFER has been made but expect it soon.
 
In this case self-reported offers seem to be spam, and folks let's calm down. 

I just talked with a professor on committee in UCSD. She said NO OFFER has been made but expect it soon.
 
In this case self-reported offers seem to be spam, and folks let's calm down. 

Some people are saying they are applying UCSD...more pressure brought on my shoulder honestly.
I am a current IRPS master student, and i happen to know something about the funding in PolSci department.
UCSD started to grant international students with 5-year funding package since last year, and it looks like ~22,000 USD per year while at the same time you must serve as TA.

China University sucks. Never, never think about going there, because literally, without offence, Chinese universities desecrate what is calling "Political Science".
 
HK and Taiwan, or even Japan and Singapore are good options, and they are not that hard to apply.

China University sucks. Never, never think about going there, because literally, without offence, Chinese universities desecrate what is calling "Political Science".
 
HK and Taiwan, or even Japan and Singapore are good options, and they are not that hard to apply.

Everyone posted above told you exactly the same message: Go to HK, Taiwan or Singapore are way, way better than China Mainland.
 
Since you are so interested in Fudan, I have something more to say. I came from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and many faculty of the so-called "political science" department  (again, it is self-alleged, titular "science" while no scientific methodology was applied) graduated from Fudan. Without offence, the most important lesson I learnt from them was, what is not Political Science.
It would be a really bad, bad option to pursue PhD in China Mainland. If for financial reasons, you would not study in US/Canada/HK/Japan, why not choose Singapore? They have generous government funding and living expense is not that ridiculous. Besides, correct me if I were wrong, but what I heard was even for Chinese PhD students in engineering school, they might expect to receive funding below the level of 2000 RMB/per month? Pretty low, unless one day in the near future the exchange rate is 1:1.5. 
 
As for learning language, China mainland is a sounding option. 

Relation with russia is a common trap (at least you can see lots of people quoting "Sino-US relationship" as their research interests).
In my opinion, SoP ought to be more specific, and you should elaborate what tool kits you have to finish the study. Methodology is most crucial, regardless of what regional interests you might have.