The original post was asking if he needs Chinese to "follow these Chinese scientific innovations". That would pretty much entail reading publications from Chine

The original post was asking if he needs Chinese to "follow these Chinese scientific innovations". That would pretty much entail reading publications from Chinese scientists - which for the most part will be in English. > It's consistent that guys in China discuss AI and OSS bugs in Chinese. So if they internally at the lab/office talk in Cantonese or whatever seems irrelevant. If you want to work with Chinese researchers, then it's likely helpful to learn Chinese. But that wasn't the question > Germans discovered chemical formulas in German, Soviets did metallurgy in Russian. They published in German and Russian. Now-a-days they do not