Mandarin learning boom as China extends its soft power in Mi

While interest in learning Mandarin declines in the West, Middle Eastern children are attending classes in China’s official language as part of a geopolitical shift in a region that has been traditionally regarded as a sphere of US influence. Saudi Arabia, the largest Arab country in the Middle East, las

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