Netflix rejects Republican senators' Liu Cixin-The Three-Body Problem criticism

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The five U.S. senators sent a letter to Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos earlier this week denouncing the streaming service's plan to have Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff adapt Chinese author Liu Cixin's sci-fi trilogy The Three-Body Problem. They cited Liu parroting China’s communist party talking points with regard to the ongoing situation in its Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where Uighur Muslims have been detained in mass internment camps. Netflix vice president of public policy Dean Garfield responded Friday, noting that Netflix does not operate a service in China. Garfield added that "Netflix judges individual projects on their merits. Mr. Liu is the author of the book – The Three Body Problem – not the creator of this show. We do not agree with his comments, which are entirely unrelated to his book or this Netflix show.”