English or Chinese?

Last night, I went to a pub where I usually go with my dearest friend Javi to practise English. We met a lot of people there and we talked about a lot of interesting things. We were a group of Spanish people and an Irish boy who had just come to Valencia joined us. One of the things we talked about was the importance of the English language. Someone said "I wonder if English is still more powerful than Chinese". Some people thought that Chinese is the language of the future and some other people still believed in the power of English. These ideas led to an interesting debate about the importance and power of English. English is the most international language and the lingua franca.It is true that Chinese is becoming important more and more, but will it replace the status of English?? Personally, I don't think so. English has a long tradition and a wonderful history behind. I also commented that I had read an article about this recently. It was an article of Obama's opinion about the English language. According to the American President, English is too much powerful in his country. He argued that most American people only speak English and that is a problem. It is not good to rely too much on one language. Americans are confident because they speak the international language par excellence. But, that is not good. They should learn more languages and I cannot not but strongly agree with this.