Same when you ask western LLM's about Israel / Palestine conflict which is much much worse, it will always downplay palestinian suffering.
But yeah both are very bad.
I don't think that in particular is the LLM manufacturer downplaying that but just the amount of sources LLM was trained on does.
vs. in case of chinese it's more targeted censoring.
How would you know? What world knowledge do you have access to that they do not?
Which "Western LLMs" are you thinking about, specifically? Just tried with GPT-OSS-120b MXFP4 loaded via vLLM, and seemed to have handled it fine, no downplaying of widespread destruction of Gaza with civilian causalities back in 2009: https://gist.github.com/embedding-shapes/78719664df5d299938c...
Maybe I'm not asking the question the right way?