china has seemed to have recognized that chinese is too hard for most people to learn as a second language, and have been sponsoring efforts at establishing esperanto as an intl langauage
I have never heard about esperanto while in China, that was half of my lifetime, so I think there must be some exaggeration here. The efforts at establishing Confucius Institute branch schools all over the world to teach Mandarin I have clearly seen.
They’ve been sponsoring an Esperanto radio station for awhile (like half a century at least) but there haven’t been any increased pushes I’ve seen lately.