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The prospect of a foreigner moving to mainland China to study Mandarin is impossible, and other avenues have stepped up to fill the gap.

(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) The single most humiliating self-abasement by an American celebrity to Chinese prejudices that I’ve ever seen. As bad as the NBA’s kowtowing to China was after Daryl Morey expressed solidarity with Hong Kong, at least LeBron James didn’t cut a video in Mandarin groveling over it. That should be China’s next demand of American entertainers, actually: Learn Mandarin and speak it exclusively while visiting. Make them prove how far they’re will...