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Makes sense overall, but why would they care about getting it published in an English-language Western journal? If they just want to convince their own people t
by morpheuskafka 6y ago
Makes sense overall, but why would they care about getting it published in an English-language Western journal? If they just want to convince their own people they can publish it in state-owned media, and it's not a democracy so it's not like they really need to convince anyone.
- rurban 6y agoYou underestimate chinese people. Not everybody is successfully brainwashed and believes everything what chinese media or science tell them. They are extremely critical internally, but would never admit that publicly. Their privacy standards are much higher than in the west for a good reason. They are really spied upon, in a much grander scale. Eg their social media profiles are never with real names, and are invite-only. Facebook or Google realname policies won't fly there. So independent confirmation from westerners has its value.