All the sci-fi tends to have the aliens land in D.C. or New York outside the UN. Having the Galactic Federation contact the ChiComs first? That’s a recipe for disaster.

China Says It May Have Detected Signals From Alien Civilizations

Given how reliable Chinese technology and manufacturing are, though, I’m not exactly ready to automatically assume they didn’t just pick up a transmission of “The Three Stooges” reflected off the Moon.