Apologies, both A) if this has been asked before, and B) because this is a hella rookie question, but I genuinely find it difficult to find accurate statistics and other info about other countries, specifically socialist ones.

Like, I'm a college student and sometimes if I'm doing an assignment and wanna bring up a fact about China that I either A) know or B) am pretty sure of, I can't source it without googling and getting a bunch of "China's malnutrition rate is over 78%," "it's illegal to have sex in China," "the CCP will get you arrested for being gay or white or STRAIGHT or WHITE" etc.

On top of that, if I see a stat about China or Cuba or wherever else, how am I supposed to reliably fact check it? Like I see a Forbes headline or whatever and immediately am like "yeah fuckin bullshit, right," but how am I supposed to prove that to other people?