Snuden wrote:If you are going to Japan, Japanese is what you should learn. And what an excellent choice it is.
The Chinese are buying up businesses left and right, all over the world. For that reason it could become more valuable than Japanese, seen from a global career development point of view.
Yeah that's also what I think, it's a good thing to do for me!
I also know of that strategy, very (at first) unfavorable government led buy-ins into cooperations to have influence when needed, also infrastructural projects branded as "development help" - ultimately to lead them into dependency and debt to China. They do that in Africa, America and Europe (Italy and Balkan especially) and there are already plans to counter that from European side. Everybody is well aware of that.
Chinese won't overtake English as the top business language anytime soon.