My Take | Mandarin, the language of independence
The furore over Benny Tai Yiu-ting’s independence remarks in Taipei should at least prove to young separatists bent on secession for Hong Kong that Mandarin is highly useful for the purpose. If nothing else, they need the language to communicate with their comrades and plot revolution in Taiwan
The incident in Taipei should at least prove to young separatists bent on secession for Hong Kong that Mandarin is highly useful for the purpose. If nothing else, you need the language to communicate with your comrades and plot revolution in Taiwan. That should help promote Mandarin among young local rebels by vastly increasing its appeal.
Let’s face it: telling young people they need Mandarin to make themselves employable just doesn’t cut it. Maybe anti-communism is just what it takes to get them to learn the national language.
The students were demanding that university management scrap a mandatory Mandarin requirement. But it turned out Lau actually spoke excellent Mandarin, good enough to give an anti-China speech at a forum organised by a pro-independence Taiwanese group with close ties to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.
