It could be that the mortality rate is so much higher in Italy because they're being the most transparent with their numbers.
Maybe the Chinese just don't want to spook the world but have been honest with other governments, who knows..
but they also don't have any free speech or true independent media, the messaging is tightly controlled by the CCP, they have internet curbs, a social score system based on, among other things, online behaviour. Major social networks such as Facebook and Twitter don't have a presence in China.. and didn't they just disappear a billionaire who called Xi a clown and that they are lying about the outbreak ?
They don't even have google lol.
Should the world trust them ?