You remind me of a New York Times article in Jan 2020 claiming, correctly, that trust in government is the most important part in fighting a pandemic, and Chinese people's lack of trust in Beijing is what will prevent China from combating it.
At the risk of being "that guy" for a moment, what your describing happens all the time. The American science community was largely dismissed internationally, until the late 1800s when American physicist Robert W. Wood debunked the "N-Rays" discovery of French scientist Dr. Prosper-Rene Blondt. Or more recently DeepSeek's success shattered many illusions of Chinese data science being inferior to the West both at home and abroad. To the point it seriously erode the stigma of tech firms having all-Chinese researchers with no foreigners.
A Quantum Gravimeter looks at very small things, similar to electron microscope. Sesame seed is small and hard to find in a room, like pockets of ore underground.
A lot of grant proposals and papers justify research of quantum gravimeter for submarine detection, not sure if they really work in practice.
