I don’t actually know the numbers, but I assume (and probably many Americans would also assume) that there are more English speakers in Europe than China, due to our closer cultural relationship with them, and because whiteness.
Americans don’t want to have to learn a new language, especially one that seems as difficult as Mandarin. So that alone will be a huge incentive for them to prefer Europe (especially western europe).
I don’t actually know the numbers, but I assume (and probably many Americans would also assume) that there are more English speakers in Europe than China, due to our closer cultural relationship with them, and because whiteness.
Americans don’t want to have to learn a new language, especially one that seems as difficult as Mandarin. So that alone will be a huge incentive for them to prefer Europe (especially western europe).
English is the lingua franca in academia, I’d would expect at least for most of higher ed to know enough English to write scientific papers?