I'm reading lots of comments reacting against the premise of the article in name of some kind of efficiency or inherent value of a universal standar. I wonder

I'm reading lots of comments reacting against the premise of the article in name of some kind of efficiency or inherent value of a universal standar. I wonder if commenters have considered that Research is useful to understand the present and more importantly prepare for the future. While English being useful língua Franca today seems to back decision to just focus on English research the point is: will this English uptake continue at same rate in future? Isn't there some kind of bubble effect where here in hn many think that (as non English native speakers) we can all engage so we think English is the only useful thing for us to understand? What about all possible unknown Mandarin NLP research (which I think many agree) may be useful for non-mandarin speakers? Also, isn't one of the points of Information Technology to enable/create value in a long tail of experiences? Focusing on a single attribute of a substantial part of the world seems counter productive and shortsighted...