It is well known and established that stats favor rhetoric, and by extension lack credibility as fact.
If you can't guarantee the expected methodology conformed in collection, bad data in causes bad data out, its worse than no data at all.
If you can't guarantee the expected methodology conformed in collection, bad data in causes bad data out, its worse than no data at all.
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...
"reported by the state-run People’s Daily newspaper"
This sounds like a case of honesty, not the other way around.
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.