I am sure these figures are accurate and can be trusted. There’s no way the Chinese or North Korean government would ever lie about these figures.

How do you idiots post this shit with a straight face? The USSR wasn’t authoritarian, and yet… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

Hahaha I think you are more right than you intended here. The party puts their favorites forward and never wins their election, they may be technically free but in practice the CCP is an autocratic state. Not really any different from how parties influence the primaries in the US.