There are some interesting points about academic motivation here, I dont see why we have to make this a red vs blue issue. Are people offended we are talking about a particular nation? Are shills or bots steering the conversation?
We could ask why articles like this have multiplied in recent years and that's interesting, but people here are just running with the implied comparison.
Anybody interested to see if this is anything special about this case, or just the standard amount that goes on everywhere.
Singling out some country for something that happens everywhere, wouldn't be that different than someone saying "immigrants from X did Y amount of violent crimes" to paint them as particularly violent, when the number might be totally proportional to their share of the population and/or some controls for income level.
But I think even then, the best way to understand would be to make comparisons to your own culture.
Because the "west", with all its flaws, created the scientific method, also shortened as "science".
Trying to explain science while excluding the Greeks, or Roma, or France, or UK, or Germany, Sweden, Spain, USA, etc... is a total nonsense. Western societies are the standard measure to compare anything related with science, because they were shaped by science.