Yeah, the China GDP is also totally fake.

Dictatorships always have garbage data because everyone lies to everyone, every steals from everyone, nobody admits mistakes, everyone passes the buck, and the central government dictates everything top-down.

That is why it's called a dictatorship: everything is decided by dictate. You could also call it a fiatship, I suppose.

This is the same reason why China can't risk war with Taiwan:

* It doesn't know how many soldiers it actually has. (fewer than it thinks)

* It doesn't know if those soldiers can react to battlefield conditions. (they can't)

* It doesn't know how many weapons and vehicles it actually has. (fewer than it thinks)

* It doesn't know if the stuff it does have, is complete, high-quality and in good repair. (it isn't)

* The Russian stuff it bought has been shown, in Ukraine, to be sorta shit, but it's own stuff has never been tried out in real battle conditions and is probably _way_ shittier. (it is)

* They have nukes, but their nuke department is so notoriously incompetent and corrupt, that one of the world's greatest dangers is that the Chinese accidentally nuke themselves. (not joking)