Because of geographical, language and other factors, basketball-wise, people on one side of the Pacific Ocean don't know much about the other side. To get more info about Yao or Wang while he was in China, you have to ask fans who live in China, not fans in USA. Chinese who have lived in USA for a while know little about Yao but a lot about Wang and Bateer's NBA life.
The Chinese-specific forum is a cool idea. Both sides of the ocean can exchange ideas. Wang, Yao and Bateer can succeed or not and to what degree in NBA is a very interesting story being developed, to Asian fans and fans in general.
As for language used in that board, fans from China and other places will most likely ask the facility to post messages in Chinese ( mostly in GB encoding format, which is the format used in mainland China), while Chinese in USA can post in both Chinese and English.
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