De Pouvourville was also the source of another important conviction of Guénon, that the West was under threat. De Pouvourville was preoccupied by the need to the defend of the “white races” against the “yellow race,” then seen to be waking from its slumber. The need for this defense was made clear by the deplorable Russo-Japanese War of 1905 (which the Russians had lost with embarrassing rapidity), and by the extraordinary and little-known philosophical and sociological achievements of the “yellow race.” The defense of the “white races” was to have two prongs. One was Franco-German entente, promoted by de Pouvourville in a bilingual French-German monthly, Le continent, started in 1906 and edited jointly by de Pouvourville and an unidentified Dr. Hans Richter in Berlin. The other was to secure Western control of Chinese philosophical and sociological resources, much as some later imperialists wanted to secure Western control of Arab oil. This was probably not de Pouvourville’s motivation when he first joined the Triads as a deserter from the Legion, but it had become his objective by 1906.
– Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (2004), p. 58