> So you think generally the news of vast human rights abuse we see coming out of China

I think that generally western news have a tendency to misrepresent countries that are culturally different.

E.g. as a Russian, reading western news about Russia makes me think that journalist play a broken telephone game, misrepresenting marginal stuff as some kind of insane norm, in a completely unnuanced way, without any context.

I wouldn't be surprised if the same was for China. Probably even worse, as verification is even less accessible.

Dramatic news get clicks and there is no accountability for spicing them up. I guess, in the age of AI-delivered clickbait media, the old saying "Don't believe everything you read in the papers" was never as true.