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If a hypothetical bothers you, maybe you should hold off proposing solutions and instead investigate whether it is a real problem.
I'm not sure losing the non-English literature is a big problem. A lot of foreign research is really bad. A little demonstration from 5 days ago: I criticized a Chinese study on moxibustion https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/TisYM64ckLM
This was translated into / written in English and published in a peer-reviewed journal (Neural Regeneration Research). And it's complete crap.
Of course there is very bad research published by the West on alternative medicine too, but as the links I provide show, Chinese research is systematically and generally of very low quality. If China cannot produce good research, what can we expect of other countries?
The language that I think most plausibly contains a disconnected scientific literature is Japanese.