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Comment by bobthepanda | Hacker News Reader

it's very odd that China doesn't really care about an estimated 100K of its citizens getting trafficked in this manner.

It's such an open secret that there was a $500MM box office movie about it last year, and media censorship is so heavy in China that I wonder what admitting this even means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Bets

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They backed a group of militias to invade areas where this was happening [0]. They also pressured family members of tens of thousands Chinese in northern Myanmar to return [1]. China literally waltzed into Kokang and put the top scam leaders on a plane.

The real question is why there hasn't been any remotely comparable response from the US. Every EAO that matters is aligned with China and thus doesn't care when Americans are scammed. The US should make them care.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_1027

[1] https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3141474/beij...

If it were just scamming it would be one thing but for China it's a much bigger deal because it also involves human trafficking of their citizens. While Americans are being scammed, none of them are getting kidnapped and getting essentially enslaved at these scam farms.

Thanks for the links though; I was unaware the PLA was directly involved with the latest offenses.

What do you expect from a government where the President, the First Lady and the unofficial vice president are all paddling meme coins? They really, really, really don't care about any of this.

> 100K of its citizens getting trafficked

Is there public data on their demographics, e.g. occupation, income, age, credit score, region of China?

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