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This chapter presents the findings of a survey of Chinese language learners, interviews with Chinese language learners, and interviews with Chinese language teachers and Chinese scholars. It argues that geostrategic competitiveness, population competitiveness and economic competitiveness most strongly support the macroacquisition of Chinese in subjective terms. Cultural competitiveness, policy competitiveness and educational competitiveness also offer some support but not as much as these components, and script competitiveness less so. Scientific/technological competitiveness offers the least support for the macroacquisition of Chinese in subjective terms.
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Gil, J. (2021). The Language Comprehensive Competitiveness of Chinese: The Subjective Perspective. In: The Rise of Chinese as a Global Language. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76171-4_4
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