Neither did we nor to the best of knowledge any one of our travel group.
For us it was mainly the knowledge that we as White parents would be frowned upon in a domestic agency from adopting a Black child and that there were many other White couples who very much wanted a child who looked like them. We were not concerned about that but did like the track record of healthy kids coming out of China. Hence our adopted child is from China.
Yeah, this is basically how wealthy celebrities adopt children. With enough money every single obstacle will be waived away. And it used to work the exact same way in the US.