Would abandon Chinese though because I don't see a benefit of it. Chinese will be useful mainly to talk with some Chinese peasants that worship the communist party in china, lol. If you look over Hongkong (the more civilized, modern and democratic part), well over 90% speak English. Chinese is super hard and there wouldn't be a benefit. Japanese however has a beautiful culture, is modern, advanced, westernized. And is the origin of mangas and animes, which probably plays into account significantly for you. And it is a very beautiful language as well, while Chinese sounds dumb. . While there would be many benefits visiting Japan, I don't really see benefits visiting China (if it's not Hongkong, where everyone speaks English).