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The story doesn't mirror history exactly, but it is an allegory to China's period of humiliation to the present day. - The Doomsday Battle best matches the Bri
by chaostheory 5y ago
The story doesn't mirror history exactly, but it is an allegory to China's period of humiliation to the present day.
- The Doomsday Battle best matches the British Chinese Opium War
- The aliens are a seemingly advanced adversary that's in decline. Guess who's in decline right now?
- wolverine876 5y agoThanks. > Guess who's in decline right now? That's current CCP propaganda. Because it's current, it wasn't being said when The Three Body Problem was written (first published 2006, afaik). Because it's propaganda, let's not cite it as fact.
- chaostheory 5y ago> That’s current CCP propaganda. Most of what I wrote is my personal opinion since the author hasn’t openly admitted the metaphors. Many historians agree that the US has been in decline for decades now. It is not a new idea that the CCP just recently invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_decline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_decline