[Levitz]

China is so large that it can afford to ignore other languages, it's also important enough in the global economy that it can get other people to learn Chinese in order to deal with them rather than doing things the other way around.

I think the point stands that the more time passes, the more interconnected the world is, the more English becomes beneficial. If the great chinese firewall fell today, millions of Chinese citizens would start leaning more and more English and using it more, odds are that the same wouldn't happen the other way around.