Beijing also speaks of a „Zeitenwende“ – it just doesn’t call it that. Ten years before German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Xi Jinping, who had been promoted to Party and army chief in November 2012, said at his first meeting with the new military leadership that China was facing „profound changes unseen in centuries.“ These would positively impact the nation’s rise and a turning point in the global political order. The phrase has since become Xi’s catchphrase, repeated hundreds of times. It drives Beijing’s and Moscow’s ambition to create a new world order according to the motto: „The East rises and the West falls.“