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| msh210 | (no comment) | Jun 19, 2023 at 18:59 |
This is not something unique to Chinese, it is most commonly seen with British speakers: https://languages.codidact.com/posts/288307
The Chinese were historically much more exposed to British, in particular to upper-class British English. I suspect that a legacy of that is taking up some of their phonological habits. English instruction in China, like many other countries, probably uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation as a basis since that's often taken as "the" English.
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