I just finished watching "Three Body (Problem)", a Chinese Sci-Fi tv show that was excellent/okay. The build-up was excellent, one of the best I've seen... the dénouement was... well, not even okay.
To any China experts out there... what was with all the chick stuff? 'Brilliant chick theoretical physicists who could also run experiments???' Right... I mean, they can't do either/or. Chick leaders that inspire their subordinates via their incredible skills... Whatever... I thought that the Chinese were somewhat anti-woke?? I know a lot of chick physicists, including one of the 'four' nobel prize winners (the Canadian chick worked with my ex-girlfriend) , and they're all... dumb as sticks. Like literally stupid to the point that they don't even understand their own research. There are a few exceptions, obviously (Hossenfelder is an excellent pedagogue).
There were a few brief scenes where two men scientists talked, and the series came alive. The whole thing would have been amazing had there been only men (and a better ending).
If even China has fallen, the world is in for a horrible surprise. Hopefully I'll be dead before it happens.
From what I've seen of the books, two of the main villains are women. The one who summoned the Trisolarians to Earth in the first place and spearheaded the central conspiracy of the first phase of the story was a woman. She ironically created the hero by grooming him for a high position where he'd be 'their' man, but he turned on them and saved humanity in so doing.
The next major problem humanity faces much later is when a female descendant of the hero fails to uphold her ancestor's principles and does the equivalent of a nuclear disarmament with the aliens which they instantly pounce on.
I did however completely lose interest in the story when it (or maybe always did, just buried under much better ideas and less navel gazing) became a racial treatise about the inherent superiority of Chinese ideas and how the only path out for humanity was to trust a regular Chinese dude. No important or useful ideas seemed to ever originate outside of that frame. I got tired of it.
It's standard for an adventure story, I know, but this sells itself as extremely carefully composed and philosophical hard-sci-fi. So I forgive it getting dumbly straightforward in its internal reasoning much less.