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Netflix Stands Firm on Its Plan to Adapt Chinese Sci-Fi Novel
- U.S. Senators questioned decision amid Xinjiang controversy
- ‘Three-Body Problem’ will be filmed as a Netflix series
Netflix Inc. stood by its decision to adapt an award-winning Chinese science-fiction novel, after five Republican senators asked the streaming service to consider the implications of providing a platform to the book’s author for his political views.
Liu Cixin is the novel’s writer, and not a creator of the planned Netflix series, the company said in a statement on Friday. In a letter earlier this week, Senators Kevin Cramer, Marsha Blackburn and others pointed to Liu’s remarks about Uighur Muslims in a 2019 interview and expressed their “significant concerns” with the decision to do business with a person who they said was parroting the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda.