I need to read up more on dois, since I don't understand why not just use a url, they're already unique.
The sketchiness actually came from that as well as the "you're not allowed to talk about it" comment which to me screams crypto scam or cult or both.
Here's my issue with your general argument
As if China, with one of the most advanced technologically advanced infrastructures in the world,
You seem to be taking it a given that what China is doing is more or less correct, and then deducing how you should interpret the world from that. Of course China wouldn't do anything stupid, at best they might just need minor improvements to the process.
This book criticizing China isn't right, it's just Western indoctrination.
To me that makes it likely that you're someone who's drank the kool aid, and you're emotionally invested in defending China, which makes a fruitful conversation with you unlikely.