Malaysia Airlines hunt for missing plane

[CityFarmer]

Chinese people tend to be intensely individualistic, and many grow up with an inherent distrust of governments, due to the difficulty they have in gaining useful information from, and having dialogue with, their own largely unaccountable rulers. They readily blame their own government when they can, though this instinct is strongly constrained.

In general, I agree with you. The distrust isn't only on gov, but almost on everything NIH (not-invented-here).