> People have suggested the Chinese death toll is actually much higher but I've read no real evidence of that
Even if the chinese death toll was 10x or 100x reported (40k or 400k) it would be a tiny drop in the bucket of chinese population and I find it hard to believe that the death toll could be inflated 1000x or 10000x or more to any number which has any meaningful impact on the chinese population without that information leaking.
I'm sure the official figures are fabrications, but, I don't think they are THAT wrong.
Even if the chinese death toll was 10x or 100x reported (40k or 400k) it would be a tiny drop in the bucket of chinese population and I find it hard to believe that the death toll could be inflated 1000x or 10000x or more to any number which has any meaningful impact on the chinese population without that information leaking.
I'm sure the official figures are fabrications, but, I don't think they are THAT wrong.