The "Chinese clampdown" is not my "argument."  It's the argument of a member of the news media. So, obviously, not all the "press" as you call it, is "reporting the very opposite." 

All I am talking about is BC's lower mainland...and what happens elsewhere is often affected by their local/regional situations.  What's true for one area may not be true of another.

Like you say, nice try, though.