GREAT DECRYPTION – On the night of October 25-26, 1971, the People’s Republic joined the United Nations. Half a century later, having become a superpower, it challenges America. The expression has flourished. In 2019, in his book Towards war, Graham Allison assured that the United States fell into the “Thucydides trap“. Out of the fear that an emerging power inspires in a dominant power, the second goes to war with the first. With the fall of the USSR, the United States no longer had any rivals … In 1998, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Hubert Védrine theorized the concept...