FENG: And for her, learning Mandarin Chinese is not about the U.S. versus China. It's a tool for thinking creatively and traveling far and, for Sousa, dreaming big.

There is one powerful step, however, that many Westerners avoid taking: learning Mandarin Chinese. This is far easier than its image may suggest.

Huayu 101, an online Mandarin Chinese learning platform established by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education (MOE) for foreigners on short-term stays in Taiw ...

More than 500,000 pupils, including non-Chinese children, attend Chinese schools each year, even though their education is not recognised by the government Detractors in the Malay-majority country ...

In these places, Mandarin-learning appears to be ticking up. More than 81,000 students from Africa were studying in China in 2018, the last year for which data are available.