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> Whatever China says must ALWAYS be a lie

Lie, that involves intent so I don't know that I care to indicate or debate that.

Highly skeptical, yeah I am considering they've already a long track record of suppressing information / people related to the COVID situation.

Less free countries have little reason / a long track record of hiding bad news, from their own people, others, etc, and they have less free media, people to discover / tell anyone otherwise.

>Meanwhile people just assume Japan's numbers must be honest because... why?

Here we are discussing an article that doesn't assume that.