China-U S race to a planet to find something aliens dropped

Can you remember anything more about the book? When did you read it? What do you remember about the main character? Is there a scene that sticks out in your memory. ---- There are a lot of very knowledgeable people on this sight, but the more info the more likely you are to get the right answer.
 
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Can you remember anything more about the book? When did you read it? What do you remember about the main character? Is there a scene that sticks out in your memory. ---- There are a lot of very knowledgeable people on this sight, but the more info the more likely you are to get the right answer.
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Thanks. Husband heard about it, neither of us have read it. I knew it was a long shot. Thanks again
 
I don't know if this is what you're looking for but it may help others pinpoint the book. The book I'm remembering has aliens seeking a new home, knowing that their home world (in a binary system?) will shortly become unlivable. Their ships are powered by null point energy. One expedition lands on earth in prehistoric times, as does a follow up expedition, but they are eventually wiped out by the natives and possibly disease also. (There was something about a dietary deficiency.) In modern times the US and China find the aliens' 'library' roughly the size of a shipping crate on the moon, but the Chinese fear that the US will monopolize the discovery leads to the device being demolished. Then a second such device is discovered elsewhere in the solar system and recovered successfully. There was a subplot about racial equality in that the aliens considered their own servants from a less advanced continent on their world to be a lesser species when in fact they were all the same species.
 
The Three-Body Problem is the only Chinese sci-fi that I've read. Your description does not occur in TTBP, but there are sequels.
 
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