Right, I was speaking in the contextual assumption where people with a common written language tended to congregate into the same &quot;sphere&quot;, make it more likely they&#x27;ll join into the same state at some point - and by Chinese I meant there are three Chinese language speaking states. The word &quot;split&quot; is applied to Europe, and not China. I added Singapore to make my case more &quot;conservative&quot;.