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Re:China's booming middle class is creating world's most dyn... by jpatokal on Friday September 18, 2015 @08:12AM (#10238687)
Fabricating statistics wholesale is conspiracy theory. Releasing statistics that are distorted in all sorts of ways because various government organizations have direct incentives to do so is pretty much a statement of fact.
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Re:China's booming middle class is creating world's most dyn... by jazzyk on Friday September 18, 2015 @10:33AM (#10239400)
In China, the statistics ARE controlled by one, non-objective party (Party? :-)), so conspiracy theories are somewhat justified.

Even in the much freer US, there are examples of (subtle) information manipulation. Such as releasing numbers that don't fit the government narrative :

- on a Friday afternoon (when all journalists are driving home or drinking at a bar)

- on page 95 of a 96-page report

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