But the Chinese are much more outgoing, and perhaps because they're coming 30 years later there are many more millions of Chinese who are English-language capable.

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In fact, the Chinese-language report translated into English refers to it as "Apple's netbook (or a "tablet" as many call it)" only adding to the confusion.

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There are scores of Chinese-language newspapers and a handful of English-language dailies.

BBC: Hong Kong profile

The Chinese are creating TV networks, pouring millions into English-language newspapers, leasing radio stations on all continents and broadcasting TV news to a worldwide audience in six languages.

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Singapore's Nanyang Business School offers a Chinese-language executive MBA and from next year will have an English version.

CNN: Costs vary with length, location

China Daily, China's biggest English-language newspaper, has launched an African edition - the latest of several Chinese media initiatives in Africa.

BBC: China Daily newspaper launches Africa edition

In this issue Tokyo-based correspondent Benjamin Fulford explores a Chinese frontier that hasn't often been in our news in recent years--because few English-language journalists go there.

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