Through his slogan of “national rebirth”, Xi Jinping made himself the direct heir of imperial China in his official speech, accelerating the trend started after Mao’s death and the end of revolutionary ideology. Today, China speaks of itself as an exceptional nation, with a universal vocation and carrying an alternative message to the West and the United States, in particular. This is the discourse that the historian Victor Louzon puts into perspective, without systematic denunciation, in his essay The great Chinese narrative, the invention of a world destiny, published last April by Tallandier.
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“China is told to the world as a country with a universal vocation”
