The Importance of Speaking Mandarin

I don't speak Mandarin. How does speaking Mandarin influence your way of thinking about these issues? And how does it inform your analysis? Well, I think I would first say that I have known experts who do not speak Mandarin who are really excellent experts and assessments of China. But I still think that they're handicapped,. That they have to rely on other people to interpret for them what a specific passage in the speech might meet for character expressions that the Chinese use. You really have to understand what they mean. Even reading them literally may not help you.