"中东" is a translation from English via Japanese and is indeed used in common speech. But the official usage is reflected in the Chinese foreign ministry's Department of West Asian and North African Affairs (西亚北非司) as well as in the Academy of Social Sciences Institute of West-Asian and African Studies.
So what? Your claim is here: "West Asia and North Africa is how the region is described in places like China, where Western terminology didn’t take hold." No, that's not how it "is described in places like China, etc." Citing some bureaucracy's Newspeak Dictionary proves nothing except your reverence for such. Why do you make up such nonsense? "Western terminology" as you call it clearly "took hold" in China and remains in place even if your favorite Mandarins have issued linguistic edicts to the contrary. If you can't get that right, I see no reason to credit the rest.
Remarkable. Why couldn't we have more people of this man's caliber in our state department? Having said that, I reserve the right to provide additional commentary on this remarkable exchange. My only comment at this point is that I disagree with Mr. Freeman on the question of when the dollar dies. I am of the opinion that we have a nexus unlike any we have had recently. One, the US is doing pretty much the exact opposite of prudent currency management. By my calculations the US debt/GDP ratio is 125%. The IMF says 109%. I think that's the low and high in the range of reality. Our debt will be going up rapidly soon and our GDP isn't going anywhere in a hurry. That's going to lead to something known as inflation. Inflation is already 5.4% thanx to
Donny Murdo's tariffs and the US has to borrow a bunch more just now (there's a reason Janet Yellan said that the Congress needed to raise the debt limit. By next month.) And all this is before the infrastructure bill' bill shows up and before the extra $50 odd billion dollars for the military to pay for their failure in Afghanistan hits the treasury. You guys do the math.
"West Asia and North Africa is how the region is described in places like China, where Western terminology didn’t take hold."
No. West Asia is 西亚，but Chinese rarely use the term. They say 中东, Middle East, most of the time.
Do you just make this stuff up for fun or what is it?
"中东" is a translation from English via Japanese and is indeed used in common speech. But the official usage is reflected in the Chinese foreign ministry's Department of West Asian and North African Affairs (西亚北非司) as well as in the Academy of Social Sciences Institute of West-Asian and African Studies.
So what? Your claim is here: "West Asia and North Africa is how the region is described in places like China, where Western terminology didn’t take hold." No, that's not how it "is described in places like China, etc." Citing some bureaucracy's Newspeak Dictionary proves nothing except your reverence for such. Why do you make up such nonsense? "Western terminology" as you call it clearly "took hold" in China and remains in place even if your favorite Mandarins have issued linguistic edicts to the contrary. If you can't get that right, I see no reason to credit the rest.
Why are you so hostile? Genuinely curious.
Remarkable. Why couldn't we have more people of this man's caliber in our state department? Having said that, I reserve the right to provide additional commentary on this remarkable exchange. My only comment at this point is that I disagree with Mr. Freeman on the question of when the dollar dies. I am of the opinion that we have a nexus unlike any we have had recently. One, the US is doing pretty much the exact opposite of prudent currency management. By my calculations the US debt/GDP ratio is 125%. The IMF says 109%. I think that's the low and high in the range of reality. Our debt will be going up rapidly soon and our GDP isn't going anywhere in a hurry. That's going to lead to something known as inflation. Inflation is already 5.4% thanx to
Donny Murdo's tariffs and the US has to borrow a bunch more just now (there's a reason Janet Yellan said that the Congress needed to raise the debt limit. By next month.) And all this is before the infrastructure bill' bill shows up and before the extra $50 odd billion dollars for the military to pay for their failure in Afghanistan hits the treasury. You guys do the math.