although this may be true the one question that sticks in my head relates to the following excerpt

Ben has done the work of figuring out what China’s debt levels are. He has spent the time digging through China’s own government documents. (As the great Izzy Stone once observed, “All governments lie, but they seldom lie to themselves.”) I won’t go through the numbers. I’ll just give you the conclusion:

How did Ben get China's own government documents to make the assessment?

orgy