• rosco385@lemmy.wtf
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    26 days ago

    At the time China had just had a ruling go against them in one of those big international bodies, which I assume prompted the announcement.

    No effort seemed to be made to actually phase out English acronyms, my Chinese friends (I was living in Hebei at the time) said that was just a government temper tantrum that would soon be forgotten.