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He argues Chinese local governments inflate population and economic statistics because promotions and subsidies depend on local performance.
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"Right. So the issue in China is that local governments tend to lie all the time because a lot of their promotions depend on..."
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"as a globalist entity that wants to take sovereignty over individual countries so that was exited but um there's still so much that's that..."
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"...you what the exact statistics are. There's probably some overcounting because local governments tend to lie. Because obviously, like the more people you say..."
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"So I so so does Xi incentivize local governments to lie? Is it is it more, hey, we got a safe face for the..."
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"...much about the world. China is an enclosed, insular bureaucracy. So local governments are lying in order to get more funding from the central..."
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