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All of China's public numbers are fiction, all information is suppressed and censored, numbers created at the local and regional level are fabricated, credible accounting principles do not exist, Chinese companies cannot withstand any reasonable external audit. There are many entities, specifically in the world of finance that perform their own measurements of Chinese economic numbers and they don't jibe with the official figures. With respect to Coronavirus, China lied and suppressed information early on, including sanctioning and suppressing anyone who talked about it. As far as Japan, why assume others are not suspicious? Japan's numbers look 'off' there's been a lot of talk about that. American numbers are transparent, created by different agencies, the issues are likely testing, the varying types of tests. Edit: I would say that most nations are otherwise the same, the only reason Japan stands out in this round is because their numbers just look odd. Edit: This is not a new phenomenon. During the Soviet era, we saw the same thing happening from the USSR et. al. Public numbers are politicized and an essential part of the propaganda effort. It's not even a controversial position. Consider that even right now, during the Huawei political crisis, nobody can discern who actually controls this major international conglomerate, as officially they are ostensibly 99% owned by employees, which is an obvious fallacy. |