Like Apache Gunships gunning down innocent families trying to help the wounded (also gunned down by said gunship)?
Yeah that was so 'openly' reported that the person who leaked it will probably spend the rest of his life in prison, and the organisation that reported is treated like a terrorist organisation... Such transparency.
Unfortunately the only people who can truly measure transparency are the ones on the 'inside'... So comparing transparency is nigh impossible.
> They have great leaps forward, we have wars on drugs.
In China, you pretty much automatically get the death penalty for trafficking drugs.
> we aren't allow to know when our troops fire on civilians in another country.
Those things are openly reported in the news although I'm sure there are some cover ups by individual soldiers.