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>weird way to phrase that headline It's Economist / western MSM evading the fact that Taiwan also plays huge part in criminal syndicate human trafficking schem
by dirtyid 4y ago
>weird way to phrase that headline
It's Economist / western MSM evading the fact that Taiwan also plays huge part in criminal syndicate human trafficking schemes for telco scams targetting PRC&TW (but particularly PRC) nationals. It's one of the few criminal issues with formal joint PRC/TW coordination. I remember a few years ago they arrested ~8,000 such telco scammers from around the world (ASEAN/Pacific Islands/African) and 60% were TWnese. Maybe "Ethnically" Chinese gangs, but that has it's own layer of insinuations/omissions.
As for rest of your analysis, that's just the cost of rapid development. Same story in Laos and Vietnam, and PRC herself during hayday. As for with resource exploitation and military cooperation. Countries with less $2000 and shit prospects has few options for growth, and TBH the fact that Cambodia's per capita GDP is less than landlocked Laos is startling.