True, native + nonnative speakers of Chinese > native + nonnative speakers of English, but the relation I'm talking about is: nonnative speakers of Chinese < n

True, native + nonnative speakers of Chinese > native + nonnative speakers of English, but the relation I'm talking about is: nonnative speakers of Chinese < nonnative speakers of English If the vast majority of Chinese speakers are native, that means that not that many non-Chinese people are learning the language compared to English, and thus English is more attractive for interlingual communication. China is big enough to be a world in itself, and for most of history has been so, but globalization means that it is part of a greater whole and competes on that level.