No, You Don’t Have to Sign Up for Mandarin Lessons Just Yet
Even While China’s Economic Power Grows, English Will Remain the Global Go-To Language
A Russian, a Korean, and a Mexican walk into a bar. How do they communicate?
In English, if at all, even though it’s not anyone’s native language. You can swap out those nationalities for any other three hailing from different continents, and the answer will remain the same. Swap out a bar for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in China this week, and the attending heads of state from those three countries still have to communicate in English: It’s the only official language of the APEC, even when the …
