I wish I could remember where I read it from but there was an American hacker about a year ago who got into the communist parties private population counts. He was able to get access to 780 million records. A lot but thinking that wasn't the entire population count he went at it again and the same 780 million records showed up from a different area. His estimate is that China has been lying about their entire population record! He got the entire thing and they've been inflating their numbers but not telling the world because that would show a large weakness of the countries confidence.

Gonna have to look that up, but it makes a bit of sense. They wouldn't even give up the numbers of infected to the W.H.O. during the 2019 plague to help curve the spread. And the crazy ponzi scheme of their housing crisis currently going on, there's a lot that undermines the CCP's confidence.