The officer cited an article titled "Why is China Becoming a Microfluidics Superpower?" — which says microfluidic devices are important for new medical research — in support of his decision to reject Li.
Hate when spies want to advance medical science.
The original project was bought by a company known for injecting ads into their apps, so this fork was made by one of the original maintainers in order to keep it ad-free. This is just off the top of my head, so go look into the project if this interests you.