I think it's time to take off your tinfoil hat. There's an order of magnitude difference between how transparent the Chinese and US governments are.

> They have great leaps forward, we have wars on drugs.

In China, you pretty much automatically get the death penalty for trafficking drugs.

> we aren't allow to know when our troops fire on civilians in another country.

Those things are openly reported in the news although I'm sure there are some cover ups by individual soldiers.