I will never forget HN's not-made-in-the-US bias https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514633
You can see a similar bias in academia with work originating outside EU/USA.
before someone thinks something strange regarding me, I can only tell you I'm not chinese, but Argentinian :)
people are just more focusing on the political side of it
it's always 'but tiananmen square'