More to the point, mandarine will not become the language of international business for the same reason French WAS the language of international business up to

More to the point, mandarine will not become the language of international business for the same reason French WAS the language of international business up to the early 1900s; the french were involved with business everywhere even though the british and germans had most of the consumer population. Furthermore, English education is already an integrated part of the chinese (and asian) education systems.