The particular point made by one of the panelists which was new and insightful is this:

The Chinese language and writing is pictorial rather than phonetic. As a result, comparatively speaking, Chinese language and grammar have far fewer rules than other languages, say English which are full of rules about spelling, tense, gender, et al. People learn the Chinese language word by word pragmatically and sentences are assembled together rather than via spelling and grammatical rules. Since language is the first thing learned by a child, Chinese tends to have different perhaps unconscious concept about RULES than westerners. For example, LAWS (i.e., rules of behavior) are less developed in Chinese society. China tends to be ruled by men than ruled by law. There are other manifestations due to this difference in concept. Not everyone will agree with this observation. But it is worthy of consideration in my opinion.