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You say the electricity growth is 8%, yet night time luminosity in China's never actually kept up with such numbers the entire time. Not even close. This is the single most objectively reliable source for determining the affluency of a region, since you can't hide the lights used by the average citizen at night.

And I mean, you call it all a smear campaign, but it's a well known fact that China's been faking its population numbers. That 1.3 billion population was entirely faked and completely impossible, not to mention that the COVID coverup is also a well known and documented phenomena. In fact, there's strong evidence to show that not only was those numbers vastly different from reality, but the degree of which is staggering. Most studies, both internationally and within China, state that the total population in 2020 was likely under a billion, with most estimates being closer to 800 million. This is in line with the police database that was leaked around the same time.

Not only that, but the death rate wasn't the usual single digit percentage the government has been insisting, but rather, it might be as high as 50% of the population. While there isn't much concrete evidence for this since the level of suppression means that it's insanely difficult to get concrete numbers, the estimates are based on the amount of cremations done during the last five years compared to past trends. And if that's not enough, imports of common staples like table salt has gone down by 50% despite no signs of any increase of local production.

You keep insisting that everything is swell in China and that anything that says otherwise is just propaganda, but you completely ignore easily verifiable evidence of the contrary like their own publicly release stock market numbers, or their actual trade volumes reported by other nations.

China is a nation that states things first, then expects the evidence to follow what the government says. That's why they put GDP growth targets, unlike pretty much every country in the world.