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Jim Rogers on the Next 10 Years

China is a country with innumerable dialects. The present government realized this early on and introduced Putonghua or Standard Chinese. The beneficiaries of this policy were the young people who soon found they could communicate orally all over China. They then realize that if they were to communicate internationally, they will have to master English. So really, it is the mainland Chinese who are diligently learning English for future use. If China wishes to claim Chinese as an international language, it is only for a matter of prestige and officiation and not for practical usage.