Comment by beng-nl

It's already here. All the best cheap microcontrollers have datasheets written purely in Chinese. Most Westerners don't use them because the datasheets are written purely in Chinese, and therefore, Western products with cheap microcontrollers use inferior ones.

I myself have been preparing for that day, learning simplified Mandarin and trying to expose myself to Chinese online presence. :)

I'm not sure that China will ever "overtake" the US in global technology mindshare, but they are getting closer, and if that ever properly happens, I'm quite ready, and if not, at least I get a whole new language out of it and a better understanding of a huge culture that felt a lot more out of reach before.

For context, I'm from Russia, so maybe it's easier for me to trade one foreign hegemony for another than for many others..