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Reading it years a go I got the impression that it was curious yet apolitcal in the sense that ideas were applied in a non partisan manner.
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You could also argue that the Trisolarans are the Americans whose inevitable invasion causes earth (china) to try weird political solutions. But then again the Sophons could also be a stand in for a ‘great chinese firewall’ (even if on our side we can equally interpret it as fintech)
