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Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds
A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise. By Jiayang Fan June
17, 2019
Two rival civilizations are battling for supremacy. Civilization A is stronger
than Civilization B and is perceived by Civilization B as a grave threat; its
position, however, is more fragile than it seems. Neither side hesitates to
employ espionage, subterfuge, and surveillance, because the rules of conduct—to
the extent that they exist—are ill-defined and frequently contested. But the
battle lines are clear: whoever controls the technological frontier controls the
future. In Liu Cixin’s science-fiction trilogy, “Remembrance of Earth’s
Past”—also known by the title of its first volume, “The Three-Body
Problem”—Civilization A is a distant planet named Trisolaris and Civilization B
is Earth. Life on Trisolaris has become increasingly difficult to sustain, so
its inhabitants prepare to colonize Earth, a project made possible by their vast
technological superiority. Using higher-dimensional geometry, they deploy
supercomputers the size of a proton to spy on every terrestrial activity and
utterance; Earth’s entire fleet of starships proves no match for one small,
droplet-shaped Trisolaran probe. Yet Trisolaris’s dominance is far from assured,
given the ingenuity of the underdogs. Seeking out the vulnerabilities of its
adversary, Earth establishes a deterrence based on mutually assured destruction
and forces the Trisolarans to share their technology.
When the first volume of the series was published in the United States, in 2014,
the models for Trisolaris and Earth were immediately apparent. For the Chinese,
achieving parity with the West is a long-cherished goal, envisaged as a
restoration of greatness after the humiliation of Western occupations and the
self-inflicted wounds of the Mao era. As Liu told the Times, “China is on the
path of rapid modernization and progress, kind of like the U.S. during the
golden age of science fiction.” The future, he went on, would be “full of
threats and challenges,” and “very fertile soil” for speculative fiction.
In the past few years, those threats and challenges have escalated, as China’s
global ambitions, especially in the field of technology, have begun to impinge
upon America’s preëminence. Disputes about tariffs, intellectual property, and
tech infrastructure have become urgent matters of national security. The U.S.
has blocked China’s access to certain technologies and has cracked down on cyber
espionage. In January, the Justice Department filed charges against the Chinese
telecommunications giant Huawei, for alleged offenses (denied by the company)
including fraud, theft of intellectual property, and violations of sanctions
against Iran; the company’s C.F.O., who is the daughter of its director and
founder, was arrested in Canada, and faces possible extradition to the U.S. In
May, Donald Trump signed an executive order that warned of foreign tech
companies committing “malicious cyber-enabled actions” at the behest of their
governments. The next day, Huawei was added to a list of organizations
prohibited from doing business with American companies without
explicit government approval, and, not long afterward, Google discontinued
Huawei’s access to the Android operating system. In response, the president of
Huawei told the Chinese media, “I’ve sacrificed myself and my family for the
sake of a goal that we will stand on top of the world. To achieve this goal, a
conflict with the U.S. is inevitable.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war-of-the-worlds