Chinese VS English，who will Win?

Recently read a report, is on the Global Times, entitled "Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew crisis pushing Mandarin Chinese to do to move closer to mother tongue," Global Times special correspondent TANG Xiang-reported: according to Reuters September 15 reported that Singapore's leaders say, Mandarin will become the country's "dominant" language. Currently, they are actively encouraging their people to learn to speak fluent Mandarin. Singapore's first Prime Minister, State Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, even said that two generations later, Mandarin will become the country's mother tongue.

This reminds me of reform and opening up of the last century 80's, Cantonese and traditional Chinese characters that kind of big wave of invasion of the mainland. Guangdong and Hong Kong at the forefront of the market economy, because of its economic influence, thanks to a brand new advertising, new beautiful products, the introduction of products once filled with complex characters in the Mainland media; want to go to Shenzhen, Guangdong people intensive Nuggets Cantonese, making Shanghai Beijing advertising if it was once a scenic course. Even as the pass phrase Mandarin 1:00 scenery have given way to trendy Cantonese, which is the economic impact of language empirical case.

Arbitrary state power, including military colonization can directly affect the language, which in modern times has been confirmed for a number of facts. Today, in China's global influence to promote Chinese language to the world, but also that force a new law: economic power directly promoting universal language.
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