I mean west free to start propaganda campaign to claim PRC is underreporting GDP and overreporting population (so far only focused on latter), and conclude PRC

I mean west free to start propaganda campaign to claim PRC is underreporting GDP and overreporting population (so far only focused on latter), and conclude PRC is finally reached high-income status. Afterall, PRC's already pretty close to the threshold, with incentive to juke stats to continue being developing economy for the perks. But west would have to accept that CCP did good enough to avoid middle income trap.