This article's outlook is way too simplistic; Chinese won't be the only influence on English's future. China still accounts for only a somewhat small fraction o

This article's outlook is way too simplistic; Chinese won't be the only influence on English's future. China still accounts for only a somewhat small fraction of English speakers, so other languages and cultures will have as much, if not more, impact. Also, this time won't be like Latin- there won't be any collapse of global society, so eventually the various dialects will homogenize, both because everyone has to understand them (otherwise what's the point of a lingua franca?) and because people from all over will be interacting so much. The end result probably won't be exactly like modern English, but I don't expect it to be too far removed, as all the changes should more or less balance themselves out.