Eight years ago, people in the U.S. feared that their children or grandchildren may be Muslim and speak Arabic. Obvious xenophobia aside, the possibility of that is lot less substantiated than that of future American generations being fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Between the fact that China has bought up a lot of our bloated debt and the projections that much of the world's wealth will shift eastward, this is highly likely.
You could look at it as a case of "slow and steady wins the race", or as testimony that strict and traditional and disciplined cultures persist and prevail through the ages.
Suddenly all those futuristic movies with images of overcrowded cities, bleak economic climates and signs in Asian-looking script do not look all that far off the mark.
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