>most people will forget the important news, no matter how it is essential to their life.

Are you sure you are just talking about China? You are intentionally misinterpreting apathy as "brainwashed".

Sure most people if you include the peasants and the migrant worker force. If you look at the true middle class in the cities, I'd say most know about the truth but don't care. When I was working there for major IT companies pretty much most of my reports know about it.