Re: The West will have this chance only once...
5-10 years from now, China will have those keys.
Actually, they already have them, but not via IT. The 5-10 years scenario still holds, but that's mainly because the embedding will take a while longer, but the Western world has already lost this fight.
I'm old enough not to be concerned too much, but I am glad my kids did a few years learning Mandarin besides other languages.