Why Are America's Richest Families Learning Mandarin?

[Beijingwalker]

Why Are America's Richest Families Learning Mandarin?​

September 30 2026

Mandarin is no longer just a language of China. From Elon Musk’s son to Donald Trump’s granddaughter, some of America’s richest families are teaching it to their children. And now, Mandarin is seeing a surge in learners across the world. So why are people learning it - even in the age of AI translation? And does the rise of Mandarin tell us something about where the world’s power is heading?

 

[retaxis]

I noticed Palki Sharma has been not very anti china lately. Mainly since BRICS a lot of her topics been neutral on China. Maybe Modi had a word with her or something since Xi told Modi off.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Why Are America's Richest Families Learning Mandarin?​

It is amazing...just the usual Chinese PDF members slurping up Indian media






BTW Mark Zuckerberg's wife is Chinese so it isn't surprising.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

The irony.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

The irony.

Well I know you are exasperated when people start using twitter posts from some nobody as evidence of something but people aren't even doing basic fact checking on anything these days. They see some video on youtube about Martians sitting in the 4th row of the UN and boom it's a new PDF thread.