Learning Chinese language helps Americans know different world
People’s Daily Online
11 May, 2014
While headlines like the “ASEAN to express concern on South China Sea tension: Burma Minister’ and ‘China and Vietnam’s South China Sea clash dominates ASEAN Summit’ dominate the news, there are also news of China’s increasing emphasis on soft power with the latter continuing to attract countries like the US towards it. One such news was on China’s language pull felt in the US with the United States having “the largest number of Confucius Institutes and Classrooms, with 100 and more than 360 ones respectively. More than 220,000 American students are studying Chinese in these institutes in 2014.”
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