The CCP covered up the true death toll of COVID19, the reality is that China lost hundreds of millions of people over the past five years due to the pandemic, today even a casual observer can see that Chinese cities and villages are noticeably empty.
In 2018 the Russians estimated China's population at between 500 and 800 million, noting China's population in 1945 was 490 million, before Chairman Mao's "Great Leap Forward" and the subsequent "Cultural Revolution" brought famine and countless deaths.
Whereas the decades old one child policy means it is impossible that China's population surged to 1.4 billion, other Russian experts added up the publicly available urban population of every Chinese city and county and got only 280 million people. Lei's Real Talk.