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Feel free to read the books.

All I mentioned above is what he wrote. AND MORE...
Like how the motivation for human traitors who contact the aliens to come and exterminate the humanity is that they are extreme treehuggers, trying to practice inter-species communism.
Or how "our heroes" surprise-kill everyone on a ship (boat, not star-) by stringing up nanowires in ship's path, which then silently slice everyone on the ship in two, before anyone has a chance to destroy any data.
Which works because apparently ships move through the Panama canal faster then one can see and react to people in front of them being sliced in half.

Also, feel free to read the articles I linked above.
"Ken Liu, a Hugo Award-winning author and the translator of the popular Chinese science-fiction novel 'The Three-Body Problem'" works for a SciFi shop which produces "corporate visioning" - "customized stories for the likes of Visa, Ford, Pepsi, Samsung, and NATO."
And Chinese ARE actively pushing for more Chinese SciFi. Have been for a while now.
At least since the tenth 5-year plan (2001-2005).

http://www.gov.cn/english/offi...

We need to disseminate scientific knowledge, combat ignorance and superstition, and encourage healthy lifestyles. We need to further develop various cultural undertakings, such as literature and art, journalism and publishing, and radio, film and television. We should adhere to the principles of serving the people and socialism and of "letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend." We need to produce more and better cultural and intellectual works. We need to maintain the correct orientation of public opinion, and place strong emphasis on the establishment and management of new information media. We need to build more libraries, cultural centers, science and technology centers, museums, archives, and recreation centers for juveniles and senior citizens. Mass participation activities should be continued to promote cultural and ethical progress. We need to deepen reform of the system for managing cultural undertakings, improve the economic policies concerning cultural undertakings, and promote the development of industries related to culture.

Also... this part...

We must use legal means to combat ethnic separatist activities, religious extremist forces, violent and terrorist activities, cults, and illegal activities carried out under the guise of religion. We need to continue our campaign against the Falungong cult, and further expose and condemn the anti-human, anti-social and anti-science nature of the cult, which has become a tool for domestic and overseas forces hostile to our socialist government. We need to mete out severe punishment to the small number of criminals while making unremitting efforts to unite, educate and rescue the vast majority of people who have been taken in.

Is it surprising, after reading all that about cults, that those traitors of the human race in the books act very much like a cult?

Serious students of PRC policy in regards to the role of science and technology need to read China’s Program for Science and Technology Modernization: Implications for American Competitiveness . In particular...

...Viewing science and technology as the key to economic development and international competitiveness, the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has launched a comprehensive effort to become an innovative nation by 2020 and a global scientific power by 2050. China’s effort will draw significantly on the resources and planning role of the state, whose national science programs have long made targeted investments in research and development (R&D) efforts in areas deemed critical China’s economic and military needs...

Additionally, this could shed further light on the topic - State Council, Guojia Zhongchangqi Kexue he Jishu Fazhan Guihua Gangyao (2005 - 2020) National Medium to Long - term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology (2005 - 2020), February 9, 2006. http://www.gov.cn/jrzg/2006 - 02/09/content_183787_2.htm

I agree that America needs to wake up to more than corporate "profitability" that has enabled the transfer of manufacturing, product development, and intellectual property into China. China clearly knew what they wanted when they opened it's doors to the West and enabled US corporations to fill America's shelves with cheap goods. It is only a means to a much bigger end for China and it is coming at a very steep cost to the common citizens (ie: labor, engineering) in America.

The same goes for China. Industrially, they're getting to where the US was in the mid-1800s. Their space technology is in the 1950s, and early 1960s. Socially, they're pre-1750s in many ways. Militarily, they're in the 1910s, at best

I certainly hope that you are NOT an American.

If you are, please, I beseech you, please WAKE THE FUCK UP.

America is in a steep decline, and the rate of decline has quicken in the past 2 decades.

And America's decline is in stark contrast with the rapid growth of Brazil, India and China.

Because of all the pollution, China is pushing electric hard.
They've failed to meet their sales targets so far, but the Chinese government has shown it will burn money to achieve long term goals.

And since battery technology is the biggest obstacle to lower prices, a Chinese company is buying battery maker A123 Systems.

The following is the so-called "draft guideline" in Chinese, which was published to call for public comments:

http://www.gov.cn/gzdt/2009-11/05/content_1456838.htm

The Chinese government is doing its job trying to regulate the treatment just days after the critical incidents and this is more formal policy draft. The title would be more appropriate to say: Chinese government propose to ban... What's so wrong about it?

I know for a fact thousands of American gay youth are still being checked into similar boot camps to rid of the gayness in them. When would the US Ministry of Health take a stand on the issue instead of hiding behind the religious freedom principle?

With me, I mean the collective Western World of First Countries (Europe, US).
I am referring to the G8+5 ruling, which supersedes the Kyoto Protocol, which intends to reduce global emissions.
Seeing as China's industry is currently booming, it is hard to expect them to reduce their carbon output.

Apparently, they're already doing rather well

give me a break.