Sujet LLCER — Terminale — Nouvelle-Calédonie — Bac 2025

SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Relation au monde » Partie 1 : synthèse en anglais (16 pts) Prenez connaissance du dossier proposé, composé des documents A, B, et C non hiérarchisés, et traitez en anglais le sujet suivant (500 mots environ) : Taking into account the specificities of the documents, say what they show about the driving forces within the shifting relationship between the USA and China. Partie 2 : traduction en français (4 pts) Traduisez en français l’extrait suivant du document B (l. 9 – l. 16) : There is a photograph, taken in 1971, of one of the most unlikely groups ever assembled in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. In the back row, Glenn Cowan, a long-haired American college student; at centre front stands the late Chinese premier, Zhou Enlai, at his side an elderly bespectacled Englishman. All appear to be looking in different directions, as, indeed, they were. The occasion was the historic visit of the US ping-pong team to Beijing […] 25-LLCERANMCNC1 Page 2/10 Document A The United States used to have cachet in China. Not anymore. “Soft power” is even more important during times of sharp words and military bluster, but the cultural appeal of American culture and ideas has waned in China. There was a time not so long ago in China when anything American was automatically 5 seen as better. In the 1990s, weddings were held at a McDonald’s near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. By the 2000s, Nike sneakers, iPhones and dates at Pizza Hut were the badges of middle-class achievement. America, which is called “Meiguo” or “beautiful country” in Chinese, was the bastion of wealth and ease. Even the moon hung larger in the United States than in China, people 10 used to joke. Now, Chinese media and commentators mockingly refer to the United States not as “Meiguo” but as “Meidi” — “the beautiful imperialist.” And Chinese shoppers are more likely to be sipping a drink from Luckin, a Chinese coffee chain, than Starbucks or lining up all night to buy Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro than the latest Apple device. Today, no one 15 says the moon is any different when seen from the United States. “Back in the days you looked at American brands you just felt they were cooler,” said Tracy Liu, a 30-year-old translator in Shanghai. “Now people chase after domestic brands.” For