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> due to their willingness to allow for higher rates of risk

You're making this sound more harmless than it is. I'd rather say "due to their willingness to reject and destroy all previously common-held ethical boundaries of science".

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Are you referring to anything specific?

I'd throw out testing on prisoners as a possibility.

The history of medical experimentation in most every developed country is horrifying.

Yes, but that does not mean that we as civilized nations should tolerate when other countries repeat such actions.

Oh, we'll tolerate it. We'll definitely complain, but nobody's actually going to put any skin in the game. There won't be any significant embargoes, much less military action.

Then, some years down the line, we'll make use of the benefits of whatever technology the Chinese develop. It would be evil not to, given how it could spare people the suffering of genetic diseases, or create carbon-capturing crops, or whatever.

Yes, thankfully, national sovereignty is still a thing.

Why exactly do you want to invade China?

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