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by a123b456c 388 days ago
Occasionally, I wish I commented often enough to get downvote privileges.
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Occasionally, I do to.

Are you trying to say that China doesn't fabricate and lie about their metrics and collection methodology? because I hate to be the one to break this to you, it does and there's a lot of news coverage on it going back over a decade.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/324...

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2023/05/01/why-the-world-is-...

https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/china-withholds-manipu...

http://www.uschina.org/articles/chinas-official-statistics/

From one of the sources you provide:

"reported by the state-run People’s Daily newspaper"

This sounds like a case of honesty, not the other way around.

They only started blaming the locals once there was concrete proof internationally where they were caught in the lie, and there is plenty of material all of which support this; not just the ones I linked.

Shame is one of the worst things for Chinese culturally.

The fact is, this is not in doubt, and it wasn't a one time thing but rather a consistent effort. Do a simple google search, look at the dates of the articles, they go back decades.

Its well established at this point that this is what one must expect with them.