[bluGill]

I think China has reached a tipping point in this one though and local governments are giving the information they have to the central government. When this started hiding things was a reasonable policy for the local governments, but now that this has so much international attention I think it is clear to everybody in local governments that being caught hiding anything is worse than whatever good could come out of the best case of hiding something.

Do not mistake the above for local governments having good information to give. I'm also not sure if China is giving everything out either publicly or internationally.

Of course I'm just an outside observer with no inside knowledge making what I think are reasonable guesses.