Sure, Hong kong submitted financial documents are opaque (to be generous) on a regular basis.
There could be massive falsehood underlying a lot of China's numbers.
But at the same time, they also are producing vast amounts of goods.
If their numbers are fake, those fake numbers are good enough for them to bully their neighbors, set up billion dollar ports, give billion dollar loans, and create the massive OBOR project.
And no, in the intervening years many of the claims of democracy proponents have failed to come true. China thrived because of its opaque crack down on free speech, the people who rose up did not survive if they rose up at all.
It is also quite likely that China is immune to the kind of issues of foreign funded news articles that western firms are open to.
And China has objectively uplifted one of the largest chunks of human population to a better life than what they had before.
It a life many people would not countenance in the west, but its better than what the options were before.
Unless someone has hard facts, to indicate exactly how deep the rot is - its speculation.
The facts and actions of China which are observable tend to hold more weight
Sure, Hong kong submitted financial documents are opaque (to be generous) on a regular basis.
There could be massive falsehood underlying a lot of China's numbers.
But at the same time, they also are producing vast amounts of goods.
If their numbers are fake, those fake numbers are good enough for them to bully their neighbors, set up billion dollar ports, give billion dollar loans, and create the massive OBOR project.
And no, in the intervening years many of the claims of democracy proponents have failed to come true. China thrived because of its opaque crack down on free speech, the people who rose up did not survive if they rose up at all.
It is also quite likely that China is immune to the kind of issues of foreign funded news articles that western firms are open to.
And China has objectively uplifted one of the largest chunks of human population to a better life than what they had before.
It a life many people would not countenance in the west, but its better than what the options were before.
Unless someone has hard facts, to indicate exactly how deep the rot is - its speculation.
The facts and actions of China which are observable tend to hold more weight