Le duel de la place Tien An Men... From morning to night, Mao is there, immense, chin up, guarding the southern gate of the Forbidden City and challenging from afar the effigy of another symbol erected on the opposite side: the old bearded man from "Kentucky fried chicken".

It is this China of contrasts, the China of today, it is the feeling that everything moves behind the curtains, that an incredible energy spreads along the freshly tarred avenues, but it is also the majestic stripping of the Forbidden City and always, as everywhere, the disarming smile of a child...