Federico Rampini is an Italian-American journalist one of whom has lived each side of the "barricades". This book is only in Italian. His idea in the title is that our Western civilization has to cope with the advancement of Chinese millennial civilizations from their direct descendant, the Han people that represent the vast majority of a nation with 1,5 billion people. Interesting to note is, in modern China the new generations and the fast consumerism adopted by them, their passions for fantasy literature, an attempt to express the vision a the contradictions in place in one authoritarian country. The subsequent chapters try to recapitulate the last problems like the Taiwan question and the Covid-19 seen from a dual perspective of West-East views and threading the multiple contrasts inside in these two models of political systems. If in the USA the rhetoric tends to foster private enterprises in any circumstances in so creating inequalities, in China the role of the public hand of State is every-present notwithstanding the emergence of e-commerce and a very high technology industries like in America but with the rule of the regulator from the State that pervades any sector and tries to counterbalance any commercial invasion by the West and any kind of power concentration outside the Party. This story ends with a description of the new centered economic renaissance by each side of public investments and with the crisis of American democracy, but with a message of hope, the West can defend its values if it catches with China's views.
