I'm from Belgium. In the past, you needed to speak French in Belgium, even if the majority is Dutch-speaking. The people with money or power spoke French, if you wanted to have a voice, you spoke French. So people gave their companies French names, spoke French, read French newspapers,... Now,because of a variety of reasons, French lost a lot of its power. And in Flanders, younger generations and companies mostly stopped using French as second language.

Now, starting at world war 2, English received the status of international default language because of economic and political reasons. Hollywood and the internet amplified it. It is hard in younger western generations to find someone not speaking English. Even local bakeries choose an English name. Doesn't make much sense, but thats what you do today.

We're seeing now the economic and political rise of China, combined with a loss of power from the USA. It makes sense that the international default language will shift again.

Arguments like 'too hard', 'complucated', 'inefficient', 'people already made the choice'? These wont matter. We've seen these in the past.

Reality is simple: You adapt to the current power or you get marginalized. The only relevant question is wether China can reach the status of most powerful country or not.

This is also the kind of advancement that happens a funeral at the time. We mostly wont spend the effort to change our second language. But the next generation?