Why China is losing interest in English

I'm losing interest in English, and I was born here in the US.

I don't want to leave. I hope the country can be salvaged.

But I sometimes dream of going to a place where they don't speak English, so that I don't have to hear about what's going on in this country.

I wonder how long would Mandarin take to replace English as default second language worldwide, if they adopted a phonetic alphabet as standard to ease people onboarding.

> According to one ranking, by EF Education First, an international language-training firm, China ranks 91st among 116 countries and regions in terms of English proficiency. Just four years ago it ranked 38th out of 100. Over that time its rating has slipped from “moderate” to “low” proficiency. Some in China question the accuracy of the EF index.

Yeah, people don't suddenly lose their English skills in the span of four years. Either EF changed their methodology or the ranking is so non-robust that it's essentially random.