Chris Balding: Should We Really Trust Chinese Data? | CLIP | American Thought Leaders
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Chris Balding describes the two types of data that exist in China: the publicly released fake data, and the real data which is sold on the black market. He says that falsification of data does not just come downward from the top of the CCP ranks, but that information censorship also occurs upward, with lower ranking officials not wanting to admit to failing to meet the CCP's targets.
[video=youtube_share;Ivob1lLjERA]https://youtu.be/Ivob1lLjERA[/video]
Chris Balding describes the two types of data that exist in China: the publicly released fake data, and the real data which is sold on the black market. He says that falsification of data does not just come downward from the top of the CCP ranks, but that information censorship also occurs upward, with lower ranking officials not wanting to admit to failing to meet the CCP's targets.