Esperanto does have some criticisms, most notably the fact that it’s too Eurocentric. A Chinese person is gonna have a FAR harder time learning it than, let’s say a Chilean.
Toki Pona on the other hand is basically an amalgamation of many unrelated languages, with simplified phonotactic rules to make it easier for… well, everyone. Also, they do have a logographic writing system like Chinese, but at least it looks like the exact thing it’s describing.
India and China hate each other very much, yet are on the same alliance.
And Russia is allied with both.
Hmm…