The language of global commerce and technology has not and has never been English It is money. Specifically, right now, petro-dollars. For a while before that

The language of global commerce and technology has not and has never been English It is money. Specifically, right now, petro-dollars. For a while before that, it was pounds The writer is asking how much longer that will continue to be true that it is petro-dollars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_currency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_currency