In primary school we had some kids who would make up shit about China and say stuff like "putting your pinky out is worse than the middle finger in China and if they see you do that they execute you on the spot" and being dumb little kids we'd all think it's wild, but believable.

There's a non zero amount of people who did that routinely in primary school and have since grown up to get paid to continue to make shit up about China and/or peddle it to people who don't know or care enough to challenge it. I think about this like twice a day and I don't know what to do with this so I'm sharing it with The Void™