Botanics and politics—when plant species become propaganda material

What has the 9-Dash-Line to do with land plants? Nothing of course, no land, no land plants. But these days, science has to please (and serve) politics again as it used. Not only in the world's greatest monetocraty, the U.S.A., but also in its counterpart, the People's Republic of China, the emerging number 1, already in science and, in the near future, in general.