вот они и вынесли часть исследований в Китай.

Вынесли уже после проведения всех необходимых работ.

В данной мной ссылке вполне указано место проведения работ, кто оплатил, кто предоставил культуры человеческих клеток для опытов:

Research in this manuscript was supported by grants from the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease and the National Institute of Aging of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) under awards U19AI109761 (R.S.B.), U19AI107810 (R.S.B.), AI085524 (W.A.M.), F32AI102561 (V.D.M.) and K99AG049092 (V.D.M.), and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China awards 81290341
(Z.-L.S.) and 31470260 (X.-Y.G.), and by USAID-EPT-PREDICT funding from EcoHealth Alliance (Z.-L.S.). Human airway epithelial cultures were supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease of the NIH under award NIH DK065988 (S.H.R.). We also thank M.T. Ferris (Dept. of Genetics, University of North Carolina) for the reviewing of statistical approaches and C.T. Tseng (Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch) for providing Calu-3 cells. Experiments with the full-length and chimeric SHC014 recombinant viruses were initiated and performed before the GOF research funding pause and have since been reviewed and approved for continued study by the NIH. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

А вот и авторы с указанием мест постоянной работы:

Vineet D Menachery¹,
Boyd L Yount Jr¹,
Kari Debbink^1,2,
Sudhakar Agnihothram³,
Lisa E Gralinski¹,
Jessica A Plante¹,
Rachel L Graham¹,
Trevor Scobey¹,
Xing-Yi Ge4, Eric F Donaldson¹,
Scott H Randell^5,6,
Antonio Lanzavecchia⁷,
Wayne A Marasco^8,9,
Zhengli-Li Shi⁴ &
Ralph S Baric^1,2

Цифры означают место работы:

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
3 National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, USA.
4 Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
5 Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
6 Cystic Fibrosis Center, Marsico Lung Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
7 Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona Institute of Microbiology, Zurich, Switzerland.
8 Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
9 Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.