They almost certainly aren't, but anything else is pure supposition and, therefore, useless.
You could say "It's clearly 10 million!" and I could counter with "Idiot! It's got to be at least 100 million!" and still neither of us would have a damned clue, but at least we'd be really passionate about our blind guesses.
“ They almost certainly aren’t, but anything else is pure supposition and, therefore, useless.”
If you don’t accept them as facts, why use them as if it is true info?
Isn’t it just as useless to pretend the numbers from China are true?