We put ourselves down the path of endless speculation and jumping at shadows if we just automatically assume any and all data provided by China is outright falsehoods. There are people in China employed to track these statistics and there is material benefits to having these statistics available to the public. There’s even incentive for this information to be true.
If the information simply coming from China is enough to dismiss them as China spreading their agenda, then the same could earnestly be argued for any other country on Earth. This kind of logic is the same logic QAnon types use to immediately dismiss evidence.
“The vaccine is causing people to die in huge numbers. What do you mean you disagree? I’ve seen it, and my family has seen it. Those statistics saying otherwise? Let me guess, they’re provided by the vaccine companies?”