The social credit score is an interesting data point to gauge that how uninformed the west is about China. The credit score is not remotely about the everyday b

The social credit score is an interesting data point to gauge that how uninformed the west is about China. The credit score is not remotely about the everyday behaviors of its people, but about how credit-worthy a person which is the representative of a company, or even a local government entity. However, in the west, people are routinely joking about someone will lose credit score for whatever reason, even scholars like Piketty holds the same misinformed view. In the mean time, if you just have lived in China for one month, you know what is said in the west media is not true (you also know a lot of "evidence" of CCP documents from NYT are fake if know only remotely about how the party speaks and writes), and yet people in the west still believe in it, most of the time also with the belief that anyone likes China is either a bot/shill, or brainwashed person. My personal experience is that the level of uninformedness for both Chinese on US, and Amerian on China are not that different. What is different is the misplaced confidence in Americans about how informed they are about every topic in China. Chinese don't have that amount of confidence about knowledge of US.