I think now that China has the technology base they are working on it, but I'll grant you that there has been a significant delay.

Cloning and genetic manipulation aren't well understood enough to be used in practice on the ways most people expect. And on the ways they can be used in practice, they are in wide use.

But we have indeed said "not this fast" to research.

In all the years since Asilomar we've only got one known instance of someone doing human germline genetic modifications.