What if the electronic war erupted and escalated until all communications were disrupted and the two largest powers in the world transcended the state of strategic and economic competition to the technological division and comprehensive war, to enter the world into a nightmare era of "dystopia" (the bitter reality).

Two former soldiers have written a foretold novel, "2034," about an armed (and technological) clash between the United States and China.

It seems that reality is not far from this imagination, which imagines that political and technological conditions lead to the fears of this war, according to the authors.

In the report published by the French newspaper Nouvel Observator (L'Obs), writer Pierre Husky says that in February, the American magazine "Wired" devoted its entire issue to a novel that predicts the future and blends technology and geopolitics.

Its title abbreviates the topic, "2034 ... a novel of the next world war."

Nobody will be surprised to learn that this fictional conflict between the United States and China, the two giants of the 21st century, is embroiled in a new form of the Cold War, which could easily turn into a grinding war.

Technology and Conflict Literature

The two authors of the novel possess the qualifications to make this story credible. Eliot Ackerman is a writer who has served 5 times in the navies of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Its co-author, James Stavridis, is a retired "4-star" Admiral, who commanded an American aircraft carrier with his Naval Combat Team and was the Supreme Commander of NATO for 5 years.

The existence of a global war scenario on the cover of "Wired", a magazine specializing in digital changes for a quarter of a century, can be explained by the overwhelming presence of technology in the novel as well as in any current or anticipated future war situation.

But the magazine also aims to advocate that the two countries not engage in such a war "in an automatic way."

In the words of Admiral Stavridis, the aim is "to give a warning that humans should avoid such events."

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A new world war

This is not the first novel about the Sino-American "World War III", and the opening scene of the novel is located in the waters of the South China Sea, not far from the Paracel Islands claimed by the countries of China, Vietnam and Taiwan.

The events take place in the year 2034, in which the hostility between the two superpowers has not subsided, and the question revolves around whether the world threatens to fall into the "Thucydides trap", the controversial thesis of the American researcher Graham T. Allison that says that war is inevitable when it challenges an emerging power (such as Athena A solid force (like Sparta), and Alison built it on the idea of ​​the ancient Greek historian Thucydides who says that war in this case is inevitable.

The return of the Cold War vocabulary

The author states that what is interesting is that the story of this novel bears strong resemblance to the current reality in this hotspot.

For several weeks, Chinese fighter jets have been increasing their incursions into Taiwan's airspace, as if to show that China is "at home".

The arrival of a new administration in Washington has not changed the tensions that have continued to escalate under Donald Trump.

If Joe Biden and his team have reversed many of Trump's decisions, such as withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement or leaving the World Health Organization and preparing to resume negotiations with Iran on nuclear energy, this does not apply to China, according to the French newspaper.

The disturbances and transformations that the world has witnessed due to the outbreak of the Corona pandemic are prompting many people to read literary works and watch cinematic films within the classification of apocalypse fiction or corrupt city literature and bitter reality (dystopia).

Modern dystopia literature

The popularity of books and films dealing with epidemics has increased in the past few weeks, such as Stephen King's novel "The Situation", which is set after the end of the world and the collapse of society as a result of the outbreak of a modified influenza strain, turning into a pandemic that kills 99% of the world's population, as well as a movie Infection "in 2011, which presents the outbreak of a deadly viral pandemic originating from the bat.

Epidemics scare us in part because they transform our fears about globalization, cultural change, and community identity into tangible threats, and infectious disease accounts give authors and readers an opportunity to explore the non-medical dimensions of concerns associated with infectious diseases, says Katharine Schwitz, an academic at the University of Toronto, Canada, who specializes in infectious diseases. The conversation.

Critics advise against relying on epidemiological novels to imagine the future. On the other hand, readers are advised to build their own choices from science fiction books and novels, whether they promote a bright or dark future.