>>13132969Sadly, there is a wrongheaded anti-American (and therefore pro-Chinese communist, an incredibly stupid conclusion) sentiment throughout the world which is seen with some regularity on /int/ and other boards. Some of it can be put down to "t. Zhang" shilling, but there's too much of it to conclude that it's all fake.
Life imitates art. In the 2010 novel, the Chinese secretly beat a joint Soviet/American initiative to return to Jupiter, but their mission ended in disaster on Europa. This element of the story was not included in the film.