Much of the pop, legal and technological jargon in use today were coined in English, she points out. The language grew in different ways to adapt to the times, and literature benefited. English is the medium of international business. English has a unifying force. But it is arguably a medium with historical baggage, that of colonialists and imperialists.
Some writers take a trenchant view of the dominance of English.
The Americans run the global economy right now. Language is the DNA of a culture, its history, its means to understand itself. Certainly, if Asian writers in Asia are writing good stuff in English, that's great. It makes sense in Hong Kong and India, both former British colonies. But I don't see why it is an imperative to an international presence.