Will China Take Over the World?

As far as I can tell, the Chinese are never assimilated by other cultures, but the other way around.

Consider: 

The Mongols killed as many Chinese as possible, and took over their empire.  About 50 years later, the conquerors are speaking Chinese, writing Chinese, and can barely ride a horse anymore.
 
The Manchu, a completely distinct people with unrelated languages, dress, religion come and conquered China again.  Today, even the Chinese can't tell between Manchurians and Han Chinese. 

Every civilization around China, even without direct contact has been heavily influenced.

Now, as more Chinese head overseas into foreign communities, forming tight, isolate packs amongst themselves, could it be possible that they will exert a large cultural influence over us?  They are within us, spreading their beliefs and way of thought, I'd even bet a good part of 4chan is Chinese-American.

Will one day, the world around us, the Internet, the signs on the streets be half in Chinese?  Will we adopt Chinese customs and ways?  Or will we RESIST?

Discuss.

>>63 I second that.
1) Money rules the world. When Japan's economy was about to become the #1 in the world during the late 80's-early 90's, US made a some financial and economical manouvers to stop their growth and keep it under control. If China wants to take over they'll have to face US' economic and financial control of the world. And that's something that a nation of 1 000 000 000 slave/farmers can't do.

2) Military Power Quality rules the world.
It is needless to say that mass destruction weapons changed today's warfare. When pushin a button means wiping away a city, having a million or a billion soldier doesn't make much difference. Having a specialized highly-trained and advanced equipped army means everything instead.
For a nation like China getting the upper hand means that they have to make some serious effort in military and scientific research to gain the upper hand, not just building a nuke with  an old Russian "How to make the bomb" manual and crafting some useless rockets that may miss the target by a thousand miles.