In article <2tr0seF23d99gU1@uni-berlin.de>, PeterL <peterl@hotmail.com> wrote:
"W=Waffler" <jwa1968@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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maff wrote:
China Sees Advantages in Macao's Portuguese Past
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/business/worldbusiness/21macao.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By JAMES BROOKE
The renaissance of the Portuguese language in Macao is dictated by
Beijing's desire to have the region serve as a platform for China's
growing interests in the Latin world.
Only Brazil (or Brasil as the people there call it) is Portuguese out of
all of Latin America.
It'll still give them a foothold in Latin America.
A big one. Brazil is huge.
China'd have better luck building relations with
The Phillipines, a former Spanish colony.
Except people in the Philipines are more American than Spanish. More speaks
English than Spanish.
James
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