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Chinese verses English Languages: I sent this out because the Quora author described a key difference between the Chinese language and the English language. Since each of the Chinese characters has meaning(s), a new invention can be named by existing Chinese characters, instead of having to invent a new term. That means one can get by with knowing only 2500 Chinese characters, instead of many more English words to get by. The term “computer” picked by the author is perhaps not the best example to use in this sense.

There are other advantages to the Chinese language that the author did not discuss. One example: since many Chinese characters are made up of parts, one part of which can be a root that has a meaning. Hence even though one does not know the character, one can guess its meaning by its root.

Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley on Feb 1 2024: I completely agree with Aya Shawn’s answer to the question: “Does this expose the inadequacy of Chinese characters is found in inventing modern scientific terminology?” His answer reveals not just the adequacy of the Chinese writing system, but also the genius behind the invention of the Chinese writing system.

The Chinese system of writing is the oldest in the world today and it is still in use. The earliest documented Chinese system of writing inscribed in some 150,000 pieces of the oracle bones (甲骨文) in the Shang Dynasty, around the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C. in Anyang, Henan (河南安阳). Some were inscribed on tortoise shells and others on animal bones. The texts, for the purposes of this discussion, show the writing system to be fully developed. Similar inscriptions on Bronze vessels and bronze-wares, based also on the same system of writing but in different writing style, appeared later during the Zhou Dynasty. These inscriptions show that the Chinese system of writing, appearing some three millennial years ago, were already a fully developed system and had persisted in many styles of writing Chinese to this date. Indeed, its calligraphy had become a high art unparalleled in the history writing! In other words, there has been no change in the structure and function of Chinese writing since then, thus enabling Chinese archeologists and scholars to read these ancient texts without having to decipher. In fact, Chinese is the only ancient system of writing to persist from the time it first appeared to the present day. (Besides the Chinese, the other known ancient original systems of writing are: Sumerian in Mesopotamia, Proto-Elamite in Elam, Proto-Indic in the Indus Valley, Egyptian hieroglyphic in Egypt, Cretan in Crete and Greece, and Hittite in Anatolia (today’s Turkey) and Syria, according to Prof. I. J. Gelb of the University of Chicago). Of these seven, the only one still in use today is the Chinese system. It is also the youngest of all seven ancient systems. All other writing systems of the world today are derived or copied from other writing systems, the most widely imitated and used are the alphabets.

In other words, we really do not have archeological evidence showing the evolution of the Chinese system before the oracle inscriptions. It remains a mystery. When it first appeared in history, the writing system was already fully developed, showing no signs of prior evolution. Some isolated, scattered Neolithic signs, symbols, and pictures unearthed in different parts of China by Chinese archeologists since the dawn of Chinese archeology in early 20th century are not writings, even less a system of writing. Did some Chinese invent the cure;ent system now in use? Or, did they learn about “the concept of writing” from other systems of writing, say West Asia and Northern Africa and decided to create one for themselves? These are questions remain unanswered.

The fact that Chinese writing persists to this date is a tribute to the genius of the system. Some, including some Chinese scholars, have contended that alphabetization of Chinese is the inevitable next step of the evolution of Chinese writing system, especially, of late, with the advent of computer data entry and work-processing because alphabetic system is widely considered the most economic,superior, efficient, and precise system of writing. In spite of the invention of the pinyin system, (Romanized Chine for data entry and word-processing), the outcome is still Chinese characters in print and it can be entered as fast, if not faster than English or any alphabet-based languages of the world. The inevitability turns out to be wrong! In fact, Chinese characters have turned out to be just as efficient, adaptable, and economic as the English alphabets, now widely used throughout the world. English alphabets are borrowed from Greek and Latin alphabets, which in turn, had come from the 22-letter Phoenician alphabets, the most widely used of which are Aramaic texts, Old Testament Hebrew, and modern Israeli Hebrew. The earliest example of ancient Phoenician came from inscriptions fin the 11th century B.C. and through trade, it was spread throughout the Mediterranean. Phoenician alphabets were derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, one of the seven original system of writing..

In my opinion, Chinese language and writing have a bright future in our shrinking world

De-dollarization to accelerate: Experts are working on the drafts of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) development bank: Pakistani official 全球加速去美國化

Science fiction has now become reality with the creation of Tong Tong, a girl who is the world’s first virtual artificial intelligence (AI) entity, developed by Chinese scientists (more than 30,000 top Chinese scientists left America to escape Asian Hates last 4 years)

ASEAN vows to conclude pact with China on disputed territory, Philippines is the only hold out, Marco’s family wealth of US$600 millions at risk if not play ball with US. Feb 5 2023

Southeast Asian foreign ministers vowed to finalize negotiations with China over a proposed pact aimed at preventing conflicts in the disputed South China Sea in their annual retreat on Saturday in Indonesia’s capital.

In the final session of their two-day meeting, the ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations also agreed to unite in their approach to implement a five-step agreement made in 2021 between ASEAN leaders and Myanmar’s military leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, that seeks to end that country’s worsening crisis.

China and the ASEAN member states, which include four rival claimants to territories in the South China Sea, have been holding sporadic talks for years on a “code of conduct,” a set of regional norms and rules aimed at preventing a clash the disputed waters.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said that Indonesia, this year’s ASEAN chair, is ready to host more rounds of negotiations over the proposed pact, the first of which will be held in March. She said ASEAN members are committed to concluding the discussions “as soon as possible.”

“Members are also committed to promote implementation of a declaration of conduct,” Marsudi added.

US will need to pay tens of billions of dollars more to expand its ban on the use of Chinese IT equipment switch to US gears so we can ear drop on everybody, analysts said, keep the money printing machine running! We never repay our debts anyway!

Taiwan US-China expert video: The confrontation at the Texas border is more than stopping illegals entering the US! AngloSaxon is in panic mode as they will become minority by 2042 in America. They cannot accept that! They will do anything and everything to stop non-white immigrants entering US NOW! 台灣中美尊家視頻: 德州邊境和聯邦政府對抗不僅僅是阻止非法移民進入美國！美國白人陷入恐慌，因為他們將在 2042 年成為美國的少數族裔是他們絕對不能接受！他們將盡一切努力阻止非白人移民進入美國. 德州抗拜登，美國鬧分裂
https://rumble.com/v4arnxt-the-confrontation-at-the-texas-border-is-more-than-stopping-illegals.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8Wm6drN/
Full video https://youtu.be/RQqpas6WlyE?si=9-yka2n3ffMZfI6z 👈

Who elects this ignorant racist US Senator put the entire nation to shame? McCarthyism 2.0? US Senator Tom Cotton’s congressional hearing with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in a nutshell. 誰投票選出了這位讓整個國家蒙羞的無知種族主義美國參議員？麥卡錫主義2.0？簡而言之，美國參議員湯姆·科頓 (Tom Cotton) 在舉行的國會聽證會侮辱 TikTok 首席執行官週壽子 (Shou Zi Chew).

Language Manipulation in Western Propaganda by CIA and others on China 中央情報局和其他機構對中國的西方宣傳中的語言操縱

China doesn’t fire officials, it “purges” them
Corrupt Chinese officials don’t get convicted for corruption, they “lose power struggles”
China doesn’t punish corrupt officials, it “nets” them
Chinese leaders don’t strengthen laws, they “concentrate power”
China doesn’t give out loans, they “trap” countries in debt
Chinese leaders don’t want their country to prosper peacefully, they are “obsessed with stability”
Countries and international organizations don’t praise China, they pander to its “increasing global influence”
Chinese people don’t attend rallies, they “descend” upon them
Chinese media doesn’t report news, it reports “propaganda”
China doesn’t revise counting methodologies, it “under-reports” cases
China doesn’t treat patients, it “rounds them up
China doesn’t enforce quarantines, “it enforces “lockdowns”
China doesn’t requisition private hospitals during a health emergency by passing laws, it “seizes” them
Chinese companies don’t innovate, they “steal IP”
Chinese people are not patriotic, they’re “brainwashed”
China’s government doesn’t face governance challenges, they face “threats” to their rule
Chinese provinces don’t win PISA tests, they “selectively nominate the best schools”
China is not good at AI, it simply has “loose privacy controls” and the “largest datasets”
Chinese athletes don’t win medals, they are “picked from school, often against their parents’ wishes” and train in “secretive” training camps
CCTV is not more popular than BBC on Facebook, it “fools algorithms” and creates “bogus followers”
China doesn’t ban the import of addictive drugs like Opium – it “renounces free trade”
Chinese celebrities don’t love their country and post patriotic messages on social media – they “pander” to the CCP and “nationalistic” fans
HK rioters don’t storm and destroy LegCo – the HK police “stand back” and let them do it
HK rioters don’t beat and burn and kill civilians, commit arson, build bombs, destroy subway stations, set fire to buildings, block traffic – they “retaliate” against police brutality
Western countries don’t have nuclear weapons, they have “nuclear deterrents”
US corporations don’t bribe politicians, they “lobby” them
White people in non-white countries are “expats”
Non-white people in white countries are “immigrants” or “refugees”
Unfriendly countries don’t have governments, they have “regimes”
Citizens of unfriendly countries don’t display “patriotism”, they display “nationalism”
The US has Bushes, a Clintons, and Trumps, other countries have “powerful families”, “clans”, and “princelings”

Video: HK patriotic businessman Henry Fok 香港愛國商人霍英東 https://youtu.be/oH3NAHSif0A?si=CxTWkQ_GxzuXfnW_ 👈

Video: Red Sea tension shows US’ weakening in global affairs 紅海緊張局勢顯示美國在全球事務上的軟弱無能
https://rumble.com/v4appf3-red-sea-tension-shows-us-weakening-in-global-affairs.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8WyJM97/ 👈