I did try figuring this out in earnest, and it felt like a waste of time for a shitpost lol. Clearly foreigners hear shit differently plus politics. Like I read that the original "Peking" transliteration was introduced into the Romance languages by the French 400 years ago. And also that the North China pronounces it "Beijing" while in the South you can still hear "Peking." Also that in Mandarin it sounds in-between of those two anyway. Conclusion: we just gotta say Bei-Xi-ng and be done with it imo.
I did try figuring this out in earnest, and it felt like a waste of time for a shitpost lol. Clearly foreigners hear shit differently plus politics. Like I read that the original "Peking" transliteration was introduced into the Romance languages by the French 400 years ago. And also that the North China pronounces it "Beijing" while in the South you can still hear "Peking." Also that in Mandarin it sounds in-between of those two anyway. Conclusion: we just gotta say Bei-Xi-ng and be done with it imo.