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So basically your source is "trust me" = "I expect you all to be gullible"???
Put yourself in the situation of everyone else. From your PoV if you're being honest or bullshitting is obvious; for us (reading your comment) it is not, all we see is someone on the internet claiming something about a population with almost no Lemmy demographic (so it's easy to bullshit and get away with it). In those situations caution is advised.
For a loose equivalent, imagine someone claiming in a Chinese language forum "I'm from UK/France/Germany, I can confirm that I see a mass shooting here every day, the king/president/prime minister has been almost shot but they're silencing news about it"... it feels fishy, right?
If your comment is 1) honest and 2) true then I apologise, but we [people in general] shouldn't take something as true simply because someone else said.
Okay, I found a news article for you from last month. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78lk3gxk8mo, please take a look at it. Today in our country, another person set their vehicle on fire and crashed it into a school. You can search for more information; everything I'm saying is true.
Thank you.
And now, in a clearer way: I apologise for the suspicion. As someone else said here, since American elections are going on, there's a lot of misinformation surrounding China - both the population/the Chinese and the government/PCC.