The Americans really can't accept that China has scientists and researchers. They've been claiming for decades now (entirely without evidence) that "China might produce 10 times the scientific papers as the US, but 90% of those are just fakes" which seems pretty unlikely. I don't know what kind of atmosphere Chinese academia has, but I doubt it is one that encourages fudging the data to that degree, especially since we see a lot of real developments out of the country, which we wouldn't if their scientific work is all just smoke and mirrors designed to trick westerners (always seems to come back to that whenever westerners accuse anything in China of being fake, if the 3 gorges dam were made today, during this current wave of sinophobia, they'd probably call it fake too.)