[matt_kantor]

Twelve of the paper's thirteen authors (all except Chris Stringer) are shown as working in China according to https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado9202 (click "Authors Info & Affiliations" near the top), and the research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

[whimsicalism]

someone call Joe McCarthy

[matt_kantor]

To be clear I don't mean to imply anything about possible biases or ulterior motives or whatnot. I was merely responding to "the analytics were not made in China or by a Chinese researcher" (which seems factually incorrect, unless I misunderstood something).