China has 100m active VPN users and magnitude more expats on the ground and foreign press present. Also millions of Chinese diaspora abroad getting news in the

China has 100m active VPN users and magnitude more expats on the ground and foreign press present. Also millions of Chinese diaspora abroad getting news in the mainland. At least among my social circles, no one knows anyone whose been infected in China either among family or coworkers. There's more information flowing out of China in a relative sense. Vietnam also has Article 117 to arrest journalists for an anti-state reporting. They jail the second highest amount of reporters in Asia after China, 3X more per capita. That said covid19 isn't secret politburo proceedings, China and Vietnam are effectively transparent when it comes to massively public events.