Operation Guzheng is the name given to the multi-government plan to intercept the mysterious Trisolaran messages, located on the ship Judgment Day. The plan, which is masterminded by policeman Shi Qiang and American Colonel Stanton, involves using a net of Wang Miao’s invisible nanomaterial technology to slice the Judgment Day into pieces. The code name comes from a Chinese string instrument known as a Guzheng, in which the strings are sharp and thin (just like Wang’s nanomaterial).
Operation Guzheng Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Operation Guzheng or refer to Operation Guzheng. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 31
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The second time I came to Panama was in 1999, to attend the ceremony for the handover of the canal to Panama. Oddly, by the time we got to the Authority’s building, the Stars and Stripes were already gone. Supposedly the US government had requested that the flag be lowered a day early to avoid the embarrassment of lowering the flag in front of a crowd…Back then, I thought I was witnessing history. But now that seems so insignificant.
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Operation Guzheng Term Timeline in The Three-Body Problem
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Chapter 31. Operation Guzheng
...the narrowest point of the canal, at the Gaillard Cut; this project will be called Operation Guzheng . Shi notes that they must do this during the day—at night, all the soldiers...
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