Was there any politization of "hard" science (math, physics, chemistry, biology) in the Asian communist countries?
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If you look into the details of the page on suppressed research in the Soviet Union that you linked to you'll notice that very little hard science got politicized in practice. At worst there were a few rough starts and things fell into place.
On biology, which to me stood out as one of the two hard science examples that endured serious suppression efforts:
Later Soviet biologists heavily criticised Lysenko's theories and pseudo-scientific methods.
On cybernetics:
After an initial period of doubts, Soviet cybernetics took root
On physics:
this process did not go as far as defining an "ideologically correct" version of physics [...] because this was recognized as potentially too harmful
On statistics, which also stood out to me as having endured serious suppression efforts:
the policy of not publishing, or simply not collecting, data that was deemed unsuitable for various reasons was much more common than simple falsification
The above being to say, there's no shortage of rewriting history or suppressing inconvenient data, but given how even the USSR couldn't pull off passing anything like the Indiana Pi bill with a straight face, I sincerely doubt that Asian Communist states tried it let alone succeeded.
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