Afaik these institutes are some Hu Jintao era relics that provide very little value for anyone. Entertainment export is far better and has been gaining ground the last 5 years.
The Confucius institutes are like British Council and provide Chinese language education just like British Council promotes English. They 100% work - but as a vehicle of teaching Chinese language and administering HSK tests. The programs replacing them have all been either Taiwanese or foreign military sponsored. It is foolish to allow enemies to teach your language, as then it will solely be taught in a negative way. See HK classes.
Maybe Indians have better communication and PR skills than Chinese. Ethnic Chinese have a much harder time to rise to such prominence (CEOs and government leaders) in the west.
I guess that someone's wet dream is to have a nuclear exchange between Russia and China. On the other hand, when was the last time ethnic Chinese really lived in Siberia in history? Never
One picture is worth one thousand words.
I don't see how that's a problem. Let the Yanks run their reserves dry. OPEC can just cut output by another 1m barrels per day to offset the dumping.
I think is unlikely to learn Chinese by just playing a videogame, in the same way I think unlikely to learn Japanese by just watching Anime as much weebs think they will do.
