... "Integrated Whale Media Investments" own 51% since 2014. Their beneficial ownership is by a family of, basically, loan sharks who are cozy with Beijing.

See, e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Yes, it's Forbes which owned by a Chinese company "Integrated Whale Media". They are friendly to CCP.

... bad choice of word.

Go to http://jobs.efinancialcareers.hk/Information_Technology.htm and start calling head-hunters. I can give you some recommendations.

http://jobs.efinancialcareers.cn/Information_Technology.htm

What made English dominate was the rise of the US as a market: if you seriously want to sell to someone you'd be silly not to learn their language.
That's why I think that Chinese may become the next lingua franca.