The glamour of China’s ascent to planetary hegemony

Jean-François Colosimo, essayist, historian of religions

“When China wakes up, the world will tremble.” Did you know that Napoleon never pronounced this formula? That she is Hollywood. And that the rise of the country of Xi to planetary hegemony today is a mirage over the course. Why, tomorrow, will China go under pollution, desocialization, dislocation? Why, yesterday, did she ignore the Renaissance, missed modernity, somber in totalitarianism? Why has she laminated the spiritual impulses of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and exalted the metaphysical void of Confucianism? Why did she obstinately build, like the Great Wall, a bureaucratic materialism deaf to criticism, blind to other cultures? With this reflection on China, by unveiling the springs of today’s international chaos and by deciphering the great redistribution of cards under the current wars and the barbaries to come, Jean-François Colosimo completes the vast investigation he conducted on the contemporary mutations of the divine in politics and geopolitics over fifteen essays and documentary films.