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Chinese crime and geopolitics in 2024
The global footprint of criminal groups from China1 has expanded along with China’s economic and geopolitical presence around the world.
North America’s fentanyl crisis thrust China-linked criminal networks and their expanding international connections, such as with the Sinaloa Cartel, to U.S. policy forefront.
- Vanda Felbab-Brown, Diana Paz García, and Vibha Bajji
- Brookings
However, the scope of organized crime from China extends far beyond global drug trafficking and money laundering. Internationally, Chinese criminal groups engage in poaching and wildlife trafficking, cybercrime, and elaborate fraud and scams, also featuring people trafficking and enslavement.
Long experienced in…