I lived in Taiwan for the largest portion of my adults life and also spent some time in Beijing working at a tech start-up (as hire #5). It&#x27;s absolutely maddening seeing people who clearly have so little understanding of China or Chinese get so much attention when they write something like this.<p>Chinese does have separators and it&#x27;s <i>not</i> difficult to use a keyboard, even in places like like Taiwan that don&#x27;t use Pinyin. Despite having grown up speaking English, my typing speed using zhuyin input is not that different from my typing speed in English. My typing speed in pinyin is kind of slow (maybe 50-65% of my English typing speed) but only because it&#x27;s not the system I&#x27;m used to.