But more seriously, does China not engage in mass censorship and re-education camps?

Do angry townsfolk not flash mob foreigners and beat them up?

Last June was there not an expose on how massively Chinese provinces are misrepresenting the reality of their situations?

Did their president not ban Winnie the Pooh?

I've not said anything that hasn't been in the news.

Judging them based on that, based on those consistent and continued offenses informs that bias rather strongly.

Edit:

Here, lets put it this way. I don't trust the Chinese government, or anything tied to the Chinese government, because they've consistently lived down to my expectations. Read what they say, find out what actually happened, and eventually the default assumption HAS to change from "Trust but Verify" to just "Verify".