Right, I was speaking in the contextual assumption where people with a common written language tended to congregate into the same "sphere", make it more likely

Right, I was speaking in the contextual assumption where people with a common written language tended to congregate into the same "sphere", make it more likely they'll join into the same state at some point - and by Chinese I meant there are three Chinese language speaking states. The word "split" is applied to Europe, and not China. I added Singapore to make my case more "conservative".