Most of us are able to speak Chinese, Malay/Indonesian and English, but more proficient writing in English. So we usually communicate in English.
I might understand it wrongly if this merge is going to include NT merge. But if not, that sounds better as the National Indentity still preserved.
A mix of Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and India would be good, HK and Macau has bilingual in Chinese/English, and the rest of Asian aren't speaking/writing in English.
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