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Plus if it's anything like India their tongues aren't mutually intelligible. So if you gather people from far provinces to study, English is the most convenient.
Being THE trade language is English's greatest accomplishment, really.
It comes, and it goes. At some point, people probably thought French would be the uh Lingua Franca. Maybe tomorrow it will be Chinese.
Fair point.