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Sure, but does that mean if a reputable researcher at a reputable university (which do exist outside the US and Western Europe) provides strong evidence, should we discount all that simply because Chinese academia has a fraud and plagiarism problem?

Speaking of, I'd guess that the likes of Australian National University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Tokyo and National University of Singapore (amongst others) would magically count as "American or Western European" for this test.