I’ve never actually seen anyone rely on Chinese state sources to make claims about China.

/r/Sino does it periodically.

tbf thats a tiny tiny tiny subreddit doing it occasionally, but you are correct lots of CGTN stuff especially and even some more nefarious shit,

but lets compare that to literally any other space on the internet simping for BBC and NPR and taking that shit as absolute truth, hell RFA is treated more seriously than chinese media on that shithole of a website