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They can block any research they want in the West.

The Chinese don't really care about those kinds of sensibilities, and if they find it useful to research something, they will.

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The Chinese can do all the research they like, because the Western political and media classes will have no trouble ignoring them. See for example the polls of anthropologists (not geneticists) limited to the US, confidently proclaiming race (or some exceedingly narrow definition of it) doesn't exist:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27874171/

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