This is a relatively well educated and intelligent forum population. Simplistic Communist Party propaganda isn't persuasively here.
There are a few hundred too many billionaires in Chinese government for anyone to believe that honesty and integrity and socialism are Chinese government values.
And the Chinese Communist government has no tradition -- is it a decent tyranny imposed on the Chinese people.
Honesty and integrity has always been part of the China's cultural tradition and it was recently added into list of "socialist core values". It is reflective of the general consensus of population on the core characteristics of a Chinese person, and not related to the Chinese government specifically.
Your rhetoric is in the style of propaganda/PR-speak. Are you implying that honesty and integrity are frowned upon in other countries? In any civilized place, the general consensus is that honesty and integrity are virtues and make a person better.
The argument at hand is that clearly the Chinese government can't take a joke (among many other things, including the whole controlling/oppression thing), and the people of many other countries laugh about it because we find it amusing. It doesn't make us dishonest or bad people, just because we don't talk about how these are our "core values" and part of "cultural tradition."
You need to respect China's cultural tradition and socialist core values, which value honesty and integrity over disingenuity.
Yes I understand the culture of pranking may be prevalent in the West but it is certainly not in the roots of China's long culture.