[Andrew Wiggin]

"This bears repeating (She then left for her native China, presumably to carry on her work for the communist government there.)"

Or maybe this is all a conspiracy to get the Chinese to waste billions of dollars, and years of their top scientists' time in a wild goose chase?

[hopespringseternal]

Or maybe this is all a conspiracy to get the Chinese to waste billions of dollars, and years of their top scientists' time in a wild goose chase?

Or decided (perhaps incorrectly) that the thing worked so she would sabotage it here to take it home and give it to momma.

I often wonder how many little discoveries are made by communist Chinese (and other nationalities) in American labs with American equipment and then quietly exported back to the motherland with said researchers?