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Except that lots of Chinese already speak English, and their Chinese is better, so I don't ever see a large market for mandarin skills in non-native speakers on the same scale as English.

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There are very few Chinese speaking English, actually. Go there and you’ll see.

There's lots of you include the diaspora. Way more so than non-native mandarin speakers.

But the idea of chinese becoming useful in our lifetimes has more to do with chinese speakers in PRC and not in the diaspora.

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