Chinese author's opinion on Uyghurs embarrasses Netflix

Netflix assured that the declared -

Once again, Netflix is ​​the subject of controversy in the United States.

After showing the film

, accused of hypersexualizing children across the Altantic, it is a project in development that alarms the American right.

Five Republican senators have in fact asked the streaming platform to reconsider its decision to adapt the novel 

 by Chinese author Liu Cixin, shocked by his statements targeting the Uyghurs.

In a letter sent to senators on Friday and published by several American media, Netflix assured not to share his point of view but stressed that the book or the series had no relation with his remarks.

Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackurn refers to comments made by the novelist in an interview with

, published in June.

Asked about the fate of the Uyghur Muslim minority, the object of massive detentions in internment camps, Liu Cixin defended the Chinese authorities.

"Would you rather they cut people up in train stations or schools with terrorist attacks?"

», Replied the novelist.

“Rather, the government is helping their economy and trying to lift them out of poverty.

"

A relay of "the dangerous propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party"?

"We are worried about Netflix's decision to work with an individual who is relaying dangerous Chinese Communist Party propaganda," Senator Blackburn wrote in a letter dated Thursday to Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos.

The letter is not only due to the fact that it is an adaptation of the cult novel by Liu Cixin, but also that the author is directly associated with the project as a consultant.

"We ask Netflix to seriously reconsider" its decision and take into account "what it means to offer a platform to Mr. Liu by producing this project", concludes the letter signed, besides Marsha Blackburn, by her colleagues Rick Scott , Kevin Cramer, Thom Tillis and Martha McSally.

Netflix responds to senators

"Mr. Liu is the author of the book, not the creator of the series," Dean Garfield, Netflix vice president in charge of public affairs, replied in a letter published Friday by the specialist site

.

"We do not agree with his statements, which have no connection with his book or the Netflix series," he continued.

The leader also recalled that Netflix had no activity in China.

Revealed in early September, the project to adapt the sci-fi trilogy

television series

promises to be very ambitious.

The platform notably involved the two creators of the

, David Benioff and DB Weiss, recruited at a gold price by Netflix.

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