Racism is seriously hampering the certain country's scientific efforts and their hamfisted attempts at being "woke" are laughably transparent ploys. It's like the old white guys who literally say "but I have a black friend how can I be racist" are making their policies.
I would have been terrified for China if they were giving scholarships to Chinese graduate students, letting them study for free in liberal arts and STEM alike, promoting Asian people as part of their POC initiatives, trying to build elite-elite ties between their oligarchs and corrupt officials, learning more Chinese to influence the Chinese right wing, etc. I was worried about seeing top leadership have their kids party in foreign countries like Bo Gua Gua. Worst of all, I thought they were gonna take Chinese science seriously and start competing for reals.
But luckily I worry too much. they can't help but be racist. They can't help but charge sky high tuition to Chinese students such that they have no time to get indoctrinated or Americanized. They can't help but discriminate Asians with the force of law. They can't help but look down on Asian languages while simultaneously discouraging people from even trying to learn them by saying they're hard, even though illiterate Xiongnu goat farmers could learn classical Chinese enough to kowtow to Han emperors. They can't help but smoke the copium from Gordon Chang and Peter Zeihan. So what's there to worry about? Qing Dynasty has opium and they didn't worry until it was too late, and copium is just as bad.