The Fig Mag Letter of December 4, 2021

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"China worries me." Like the wonderful literary critic and writer Jean-Louis Curtis in a collection of school texts on May 68, or the sinologist Jean-Luc Domenach in a very serious essay, our correspondent in Asia Sébastien Falletti is concerned about the Middle Kingdom. After forty years marked by a frenetic economic take-off and a spirit of openness barely disturbed by the bloody episode of Tien Anmen in 1989, post-Maoist China has opted for "the great withdrawal". By the sole will of his autocratic president Xi Jiping, emperor and dictator who increasingly ape Mao Zedong's ways: strengthening of military and police power, establishment of generalized surveillance thanks to new technologies, fiercely nationalist and imperialist discourse ( on point,do you realize that Vietnam is asking for help from the United States to protect itself from the appetites of its immense neighbor ...), etc. Leaning

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