The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[rikforto]

@ stolfi I’m currently doing a lot of statistical research, and every now and then, among other possibilities, Asian languages come up as a possibility.
I’m slowly starting to give your theory a little more credence than I have so far. Although, of course, I still believe in my own. 

It should be said, as one of the more vocal critics of the specific identifications that have been put forward under the COT, I find this basic launching point for that search fairly compelling. There are some things that I think are cause for caution even at that high level, but nothing that rules out either of your broad frameworks. The high-level statistical evidence for a monosyllabic language with ordered features is not bad! Closing that gap into specifics is where neither of you has won me over yet.