According to linguists, English is the hardest language to learn as it is a bizarre mixture of Romance languages, Germanic languages, Gaelic languages, and so on, with strange rules to pronounce words like "knight" and all kinds of exceptions when it comes to grammar and spelling (according to William Safire, the "i-before-e-except-after-c" rule raises spelling to a sceiance). Japanese is ranked second hardest language; Chinese is third hardest.
Also, please do not call China communist; its economy (3rd in the world by purchasing power parity) is as far from being communist as possible... do your own research. Communism does not endorse dictatorship; instead it is an extreme form of democracy where everyone is equal with no one in charge and all decisions made collectively.
Chinese does not have an alphabet. If by "Asian" you meant Japanese and Korean, that's fine; I overreacted. Those languages have alphabets; Chinese has characters instead (think of them as words).
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