There's no shortage of claims that Chinese economic statistics are lies or that Chinese economic growth is fake.
For example, Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA has said as much in his 'Mother of All Gray Swans' presentation, which leans a little too far towards political rhetoric in our view.
What's peculiar is how negative perceptions of Chinese economic data are still prevalent despite the fact that China's major economic statistics are actually cross-checked by various different government and private organizations which each collect and calculate their own views, as we've highlighted the World Bank explaining in the past:
The World Bank's Gao Xu argues that even a small manipulation of GDP would require a nearly impossible conspiracy. For one thing, there are tons of data collectors, including government, semi-government, and private foreign institutions: