During the Crisis Era (about 200 years after the events in the first book), Earth had surpassed the Trisolarians in building a much larger and faster fleet despite the technology sanctions by the Trisolarians. The Trisolarians sent out a Droplet towards Earth, which was interpreted as a Trisolarian “gift” and a sign that the Trisolarians are about to concede defeat and seek friendship with Earth instead. The Droplet then ended up annihilating the entire Earth space fleet (the Doomsday Battle).
An apt analogy of the Droplet today is the invisible yet massive global financial institutions that serve the US - the dollar hegemony - which if utilized properly, can annihilate the world’s economy and take out the Chinese semiconductor industry (and many other things) all at once. This is also why de-dollarization is at the forefront of the “multipolar” fight today, because nobody would be able to escape from the weaponized dollar eventually.
So yeah, the US might send out a fake friendship gift soon to China only to turn out to be some deadly financial weapon.
On the one hand, Trisolarian fail.
On the other hand, if you know a major plot point in The Dark Forest, then you know why China shouldn’t be getting over-confident at this stage.
Thankfully, the Chinese leadership have all read the Three Body Problem series so they know what to expect.
What’s the US gonna do in this parable, transmit coordinates for Taiwan to Sirius? Is China Earth? I hate these hard-to-interpret comparisons.
Elon Musk has already done the birdsite a dual vector foil and the whole internet is frankly under threat
He has gone two dimensional himself already
Major Book 2 spoiler
During the Crisis Era (about 200 years after the events in the first book), Earth had surpassed the Trisolarians in building a much larger and faster fleet despite the technology sanctions by the Trisolarians. The Trisolarians sent out a Droplet towards Earth, which was interpreted as a Trisolarian “gift” and a sign that the Trisolarians are about to concede defeat and seek friendship with Earth instead. The Droplet then ended up annihilating the entire Earth space fleet (the Doomsday Battle).
An apt analogy of the Droplet today is the invisible yet massive global financial institutions that serve the US - the dollar hegemony - which if utilized properly, can annihilate the world’s economy and take out the Chinese semiconductor industry (and many other things) all at once. This is also why de-dollarization is at the forefront of the “multipolar” fight today, because nobody would be able to escape from the weaponized dollar eventually.
So yeah, the US might send out a fake friendship gift soon to China only to turn out to be some deadly financial weapon.
honestly this just sounds like the trojan horse
I’ve legit thought about creating a peace enjoying Trisolaran online identity someone really should
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