The way you protect your witness is very lousy...I mean if I was familiar with her I could tell by just looking her clothes and even recognise her through her voice...Please be careful
You go protect her if it's so important. She's a criminal, not a witness. She literally admits to being a scammer. Idgaf if "she's being forced". Everyone makes that claim. The trick is to fight back if you're gonna have the audacity to complain.
@@TheJoker-gg8hc I don't think you understand what human trafficking is. This is not some ordinary scammer in the US where they CHOOSE to be a scammer for pay.
tbf they could have used an actress to recreate the interview I *hope* they did but if they did they should put a disclaimer. I know DW commonly uses actors but they do put a note saying so
@@TheJoker-gg8hc you don't know how these things happen. In asia, there are a lot of these cases all around asia and all of them are chinese. they have hubs everywhere and they detain and lock up these smuggled people and these people do the scamming, they basically know no one in the country and they are locked in a place that is heavily monitered and even if people know they are there, most of these places are legal on paper most of the time they are casinos or online gambling hub offices. all politicians, even people on the top are on the payroll, basically there is always a political party that is paid off to just turn a blind eye and sometimes there is cooperation aswell. and all of these groups have clear ties with the CCP.
Wait a moment... Casinos are used to launder money? No way. Casinos have always been on the up and up. Look at how the industry took off in the US, only the most honest business people were involved.
An interesting historical fact: Back in the old days, the Golden Triangle was known as a perfect hideout/get-away spot where a number of toppled and defeated Chinese dynasties/kingdoms, along with their remaining armies would run away from their enemies, to a deeply forested, mountainous, far-flung region like the Golden Triangle and 'disappeared', and gradually become locals years later. [ For more, pls read the informative, insightful, multi-page comments by 'Ms. Gregoria' at, "Myanmar remains in social and economic crisis since military seized power/BBC News", on RUclips]. Like I said, defeated Chinese dynasties/kingdoms, along with their remaining armies would run away from their enemies, to a deeply forested, mountainous, far-flung region like the Golden Triangle and 'disappeared', and gradually become locals years later.
That's quite interesting to learn how GT becomes drug den from the very informative multi-page comments by 'Ms. Gregoria' at, "Myanmar remains in social and economic crisis since military seized power/BBC News", on RUclips. That's quite interesting!
Thanks for the the insightful, multi-page comments by 'Ms. Gregoria' at, "Myanmar remains in social and economic crisis since military seized power/BBC News", on RUclips,that I learned more about Golden Triangle than I've ever known.
I believe it's not so simple. Zhao is simply the face of it, but there's definitely a shadow organization that runs the entire operation, if not as a sole authority then as part of a symbiotic relationship.
@@maggiejetson7904exactly. This happens in South America and Africa too. Mountainous jungle regions that are hard for the government to control become hideouts for insurgents who fund themselves with drug sales.
If Zhao Wei's illegal business empire collapses, he can always get an acting job playing a cartoonishly evil villain. He has the perfect look! He belongs in a Bond movie. 9:07
Thinking about it I almost fell for this Job scam, the Job was in Cambodia and they offer to pay $7000, they were so insistent I join them immediately to start a Job as a motion Graphics designer, my soul wasn’t just at peace, I consulted few friends and family members and they advised me to be careful, so happy I declined lol I remember even asked them to work remote they refused 🤣🤣🤣
mainland chinese "investments" absoolutely ruined my country's beautiful Sihanoukville beach province with a skyline of empty unfinished casinos and money laundering crime
That's not too bad in my country they do scamming, kidnapping and torture,drug dealing,kidnap for ransom money laundering they even implanted spy's to run as government officials to approved their illegal businesses and also they barely hire locals they mostly hired mainland Chinese and made them work while only having tourist visa
Amazing that Laos still around." From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped 4 billion bombs on Laos. To this day, the country holds the dubious distinction of being the most heavily bombed neutral country in history."
@PhilmiiNutsakz Other nations aren't taught what they are doing to Laos. Dai views tried to culturally genocide the Laos culture during the 18th to 19th century. It was only after french conquest of indochina that vietnam failed to genocide them. China controls som much of Laos economic wise and there are so many reports of racism but in Chinese media it make it look like china is helping Laos. Both vietnam and china has a history of doing horrible things to Laos but they also don't talk about it.
Laos and Vietnam suffered greatly from US intervention. but 4 billion total is likely an exaggeration. that's 1.2 million bombs every single day without rest for 9 years. the logistics of achieving that would be pretty impossible. several million total is a more realistic number (amounting to several 1000's to 10,000's of bombs a day)
It's incredible that we teach our children to be fair, honest, kind and generous. To be all the things that the world is simply not. It truly appears that the way of the world is uncompromise, deceit, cruelty and greed. I am often appalled by what is determined to be legal, and also NOT right. It's disheartening to know that pretty much most of the rich people in the world, attained their wealth on the backs of hard working people using exploitative methods. Mostly legal, but not right. Corporations have to be the worse of the worse, BUT they are legal.
I get the sense we only teach our kids to be so, that they not only maintain some semblance of themselves in this world, but to also keep them naive, pliable and thus easily taken advantage of by the world which knows how to manipulate those qualities by emulating them.
Yes, laos is a client state of China, but yet no RUclipsr has exposed that the Central Bank of China is now the only bank worldwide that can trade the Laos Kip Currency, CBC faculitates all KIP exchanges to foreign currency even for the Central bank of Laos... And can manuipulate Laos KIP as seen fit China OWNS laos currency and can manipulate the orice / The entire country with this power....
There's a Japanese yakuza hotspot in Thailand as well. Triads in Singapore. And this is a pattern in SE Asia. Enclaves of corrupt activity either tacitly supported or actively ignored by govts.
You've been around. Depending on the strength of different governments and their policies, our Asian crime syndicates pivot their activities to stay below radar or even achieve a symbiotic relationship with the authorities.
A certain Alice Guo will enter this area soon meeting her friends and colleagues while insulting the authorities of the Philippines, negating the the fact that she grew up in a farm.
She already capture in Indonesia recently, she run to Singapore with her friends and then they separates Alice going to Indonesia and her friends escape to Hongkong.
This is EXACTLY what happen in the offshore gaming operations (POGO) in the Philippines which is currently being crackdown by the government.. Money laundering, text scam, love scam. Human trafficking, kidnapping etc..
I think it's the CIA who uses the proceeds to fund militias and factions against the CCP. the CCP hates casino money laundering, they arrested Macau crime bosses.
Whatever current situation may be, but it was formed with the help of CIA as Americans have history of helping cartels operate their business with no disturbance.
Drug money filters into the legal economy, often to the point where it’s not in the government’s self interest to go after the big traffickers, because drug money brings development and investment
I went to the golden triangle economic zone last year with my gf, was a very weird experience to see inside the practically mini chinese city that was virtually empty
That’s what I’m thinking during this doc . What matters if you build fancy places kfc casino etc if no one has the money to go there there wasn’t even a workforce there ?
Casinos in North America are clearly outstanding corporate citizens. Never launder any money. Let alone the banks here. As for scams, we think America legalized a lot of them on Wall Street.
This video doesn't serve the truth but the American interests in the region. If you studied and learnt about the Golden Triangle, you know that it is not a one-man band. It’s controlled, also, by the military in Myanmar and Thailand. However, this fact is omitted in this video. Why? 🤔
However, the location of the special zone in the video is Laos. Thailand and Myanmar only border this economic zone and do not participate in its operation.
Isn’t it obvious by its constant emphasis on Chinese? When the whole incident didn’t happen in China nor directed by anyone physically in China. The story did not even have a Chinese victim, but Chinese government gets blamed for the crime. US media just hates China.
GT was worse in the past, with warlords building up militias using drug as funding source. Scam centers is just slightly better and until the 3 nations nearby are stable and developed, this place would remain a criminal hub of some sort.
@@JoeRogansForehead No, Cambodia isn't in the Golden Triangle. Still I believe the comment talked about Sihanoukville, which is also pretty much like what is going on in the city in this video. Chinese casinos, businesses, and eventually takeover of the city
lol naw China pretty much OWNS central america and south america now, they control all the ports around the globe now and are able to smuggle drugs easily to any country this way
@@КеијіLaos isn’t controlled by China. They have close ties but they aren’t directly linked. This video is EXTREMELY misleading and aims to continuously promote hostile attitudes to the Chinese government. Hilarious considering the CIA and the US have done far worse.
Well it’s not like the American government isn’t known of doing undercover work. Sending in a small handful men to take the target out or kidnap them and bring them somewhere they can in-force their law.. the reason they haven’t done anything is, either they been doing very well fattening their pockets with on point bribes. Or he just not as important to them but the only reason they’re speaking on him is for the public..
Those victim are being imprisioned by these organization, they put their worker in the special building guarded by their own security and being monitored for 24/7. Sometimes they even operated in the edge of the city area far away from city center, also you should know that this is Southeast Asia, most of their politician and police is bribed by these criminal. That's why these organization could operate for decades
Inability of Westerners to understand cultures is what makes them assume that someone has power. Africans and Asians have something in common - giving respect even to the point of servitude to someone who has achieved success or is older than them. You may think the person has power, but he really doesn't. He is just living off of the power wilfully extended to him by people cause of his success.
In your mind how does America compare? Are “powerful” people in the west actually powerful or is there a synonymous social age-hierarchy granting them power? You have a unique viewpoint from my current perspective
Suprised bloomberg will go this far to hunt drugs abroad but wont do same in america where silicon valley alone consumes 90 percent of colombias bigest export 😂😂😂😂😂 u all know what am talking about😂😂😂😂
@@俞强声-q4kThe CIA have actively distributed drugs as well as narcotics not only to US civilians but to other regions, absolutely destroying them. Also, US agents destroying democracy and popular vote is extremely common 😂 they do it to their allies too.
Ecstacy traffic used to be huge here because of the precursor saffrole. Has the global supply switched to the PMK method? I'm just curious because they didn't say anything about it
13:16 The "journalist" says Laos is a Chinese satellite state. Pretty funny coming from westerners when the US has multiple statutes states across Europe and latin America
@@travisfubu9053 at least he’s allowed to report (compared your dictator countries). The story was about this region, why should they mention South America? Laos is definitely a satellite state of China and both are complicit in drug production and distribution, what’s difficult to understand about this?
64 billion? U kidding how can humans figure how to steal that much money. I remember once in my life they was a similar kinda scam they said put money on app u get profit the next day without doing nothing. They stole 4k to 5k usd from my friends and i 😢 i never trusted an app giving money in my life again💔
I don't think that the complex interconnection of financial interests at such large scale is sustainable by having a single guy sitting on top of the pyramid. Operations at this scale are impossible to be controlled by a single individual. In fact, at this point in time and with all the hindsight we have achieved, we should not see organized crime anymore with the same mentality as we used to see old school-criminal enterprises that were typically organized under a vertical mafia style hierarchy, where there's a single old guy sitting on top of the food chain, the risk it too big for decision-making to not be spread around horizontally amidst parallel regional interests. Such a complex enterprise cannot be undertaken at this large-scale unless behind it are entities such as govenments and international banks controlling the flow of money and decision making. That chinese guy is just the face of the operation and he will the be the scapegoat in case things go wrong while the continuation of the enterprise will be maintained without having it collapse when he goes down. That guy might seem to us as someone wielding infinite power but I think he is in the most unfortunate position that one might ever be in such organization. The real power, paradoxically lies in legal entities.
I just have one question: has the FBI taken care of all drug dealers and scammers IN THE USA? Why you guys have to do something that you are not asked to do in other countries? I don’t get it. Whatever happens in other countries is their problems. You take care of your of own problems first. I’m just awed by the fact how these individuals in the video care for people in Thailand/Laos when they have lots of people in the US who need their help.
Even if what they are saying is true , I don't think anyone or even the government in Laos will listen to USA. USA dropped largest number of bombs on this small country .
Wherever the Chinese regime goes, that place becomes *hopeless.* Whether it's Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Zambia, Kenya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cambodia, or Laos.
For afghanistan, it is the contrary. Afghanistan only had hope when it had the possibility of economic development with china and russia because western genocidal sanctions
They obviously know that if they are gonna become rich, there needs to be poor people somewhere-somehow...the west has already done this, but they have done it in a more discreet and patient process
It would be more interesting to see the reason though. In last year the main scam centers in northern Myanmar was taken down and the leader expediated to China. In the past decade, many Chinese criminal centers are forced out of China due to police operations. I do believe that the Golden triangle have strong ties to illicit activities, but the rationale of Chinese government in this particular case remains interesting.
I agree with you in the case of Hong Kong. I don’t know anything about Argentina. But many infrastructure built in Africa at least, did provide a lot of benefits.
@@RickGifford28 tortured, killed, assassinated, attacked, beaten, stolen and much more.. only difference was they wasn’t fully in control of Las Vegas like the golden triangle is. I guess you don’t know the history of Las Vegas. It’s not a paradise like you think mate.
@@RickGifford28 tortured, killed, assassinated, attacked, beaten, stolen and much more.. only difference was they wasn’t fully in control of Las Vegas like the golden triangle is. I guess you don’t know the history of Las Vegas. It’s not a paradise like you think mate.
Even the Chinese traffickers or drug lords pass through my Goldin triangle. Sometimes they pass through the river. Sometimes there is a doma who passes through the river and the high way of the Goldin triangle at the same time. That was my news.
That place used to be controlled by a Burmese armed group. In 2011, they robbed a Chinese cargo ship and killed over a dozen crew members. Then their leader was arrested in Laos. Afterwards, Zhao Wei appeared and took over that area
worked in banks and casino before, guess what, similar it is... Singapore gov knows well off shore banking, where politicians love. similarly whoever has corrupted or illegal money love casino... some of main clients of off shore banking were the imprisoned corrupted x president of taiwan, daughter of the x junta of myanmar were the clients of off shore banking...
From what I have heard and seen , getting into the zone is not easy . Even some locals need a permit to enter . Border guards on roads ' crossing the border ' ! Know a regular Aussie down south , been there a few years , says its a ' No go zone ' and ' Avoided by most ' I first saw it some months ago , an American U tuber , eventually managed to get just over . Says he was rather scared about what he saw and heard . Basically saw ladies being auctioned :-( The CCP needs the $$$ , so will do what it wants to :-(
The way you protect your witness is very lousy...I mean if I was familiar with her I could tell by just looking her clothes and even recognise her through her voice...Please be careful
You go protect her if it's so important. She's a criminal, not a witness. She literally admits to being a scammer. Idgaf if "she's being forced". Everyone makes that claim. The trick is to fight back if you're gonna have the audacity to complain.
@@TheJoker-gg8hc I don't think you understand what human trafficking is. This is not some ordinary scammer in the US where they CHOOSE to be a scammer for pay.
tbf they could have used an actress to recreate the interview
I *hope* they did but if they did they should put a disclaimer. I know DW commonly uses actors but they do put a note saying so
@@TheJoker-gg8hc oh look a keyboard warrior there so hard and judging 😂
@@TheJoker-gg8hc you don't know how these things happen. In asia, there are a lot of these cases all around asia and all of them are chinese. they have hubs everywhere and they detain and lock up these smuggled people and these people do the scamming, they basically know no one in the country and they are locked in a place that is heavily monitered and even if people know they are there, most of these places are legal on paper most of the time they are casinos or online gambling hub offices. all politicians, even people on the top are on the payroll, basically there is always a political party that is paid off to just turn a blind eye and sometimes there is cooperation aswell. and all of these groups have clear ties with the CCP.
please do a better job at hiding witnesses identity. It is very easily recognizable for a familiar eye
Paid actor 💡
probably a reconstructed interview and not the actual witness
@@chaseteter i can confirm, I was the pay
@chaseteter Hello 50 cent army
😂😂😂😂😂😂
They all look the same anyway.....please relax!
I thought Chris Tucker & Jackie Chan determined that Juntao was the criminal mastermind of Asia.
What year was it?
😂😂😂😂
Zhao took over when they busted him
None can match CIA
LOL.
Wait a moment... Casinos are used to launder money? No way. Casinos have always been on the up and up. Look at how the industry took off in the US, only the most honest business people were involved.
dont try to be stpid.
@@AntiFamoussss who is gonna...
Who’s gonna tell them….?
Great whataboutism job, wumao Richard :)
@@AntiFamousssshe's being sarcastic
this video made it look like Thailand is some sort of country with rule-based governance. bitter truth is Laos, Burma, Thailand all are part of this.
Your spot on
Thailand is a close US ally though, so that ruins the narrative.
As if the CIA wasn't as well.
$$$
Morality, ethics, integrity are unwelcome here. It's all about making money.
Sounds like any place in the world
if its happening there i wonder if other "casinos" are also washing dirty money or have links to organised crime. It really makes you think.
Welcome to the USA I guess, home of Enron, the Koch brothers and the city of Las Vegas
That’s rich coming from a white
Unlike the rest of the world where its all about... making money
This activities is called POGO in the Philippines and perpetrated by Chinese by Chinese Nationals
So wrong the CIA sponsor them
yes
Say NO TO POGO
This is literally Las Vegas playbook ... In the 1940-50s Vegas was run by the mafia, then the mafia slowly sold their casinos to commercial business.
...now, the mob runs the entire government. Apparently, a bit more profitable. ;)
and now these casinos are owned partly by the ppl connected with the "Deep State"? 👻👻
probably without scammers though,, this is all new level of corruption
Nah, you're wrong bud.
This is Yakuza playbook. 😎😎😎
@@dereenaldoambun9158Yakuza is a japanese mafia and Las Vegas isn't in Japan.
An interesting historical fact: Back in the old days, the Golden Triangle was known as a perfect hideout/get-away spot where a number of toppled and defeated Chinese dynasties/kingdoms, along with their remaining armies would run away from their enemies, to a deeply forested, mountainous, far-flung region like the Golden Triangle and 'disappeared', and gradually become locals years later. [ For more, pls read the informative, insightful, multi-page comments by 'Ms. Gregoria' at, "Myanmar remains in social and economic crisis since military seized power/BBC News", on RUclips]. Like I said, defeated Chinese dynasties/kingdoms, along with their remaining armies would run away from their enemies, to a deeply forested, mountainous, far-flung region like the Golden Triangle and 'disappeared', and gradually become locals years later.
That's quite interesting to learn how GT becomes drug den from the very informative multi-page comments by 'Ms. Gregoria' at, "Myanmar remains in social and economic crisis since military seized power/BBC News", on RUclips. That's quite interesting!
Thanks for the the insightful, multi-page comments by 'Ms. Gregoria' at, "Myanmar remains in social and economic crisis since military seized power/BBC News", on RUclips,that I learned more about Golden Triangle than I've ever known.
How GT becomes drug den?
Ask the West!
How China become drug den?
Why would there be a need to impose a ban on scamming operations when a scam itself is already a crime?
Election, revolving credit, crypto currencies ... are all legal and considered scams isn't ?
they referring to the front businesses ..
its called US bullying
The Philippines nearly became one clearly with "POGOs".
Because of Duterte!
Nearly? There are pig butchering places here. They even raided one in Cavite earlier this year.
I believe it's not so simple. Zhao is simply the face of it, but there's definitely a shadow organization that runs the entire operation, if not as a sole authority then as part of a symbiotic relationship.
Typically it is some sort of revolutionary militia trying to fund itself using drug trades.
Definitely there is an arm of CCPs CIA involved
CIA
@@maggiejetson7904exactly. This happens in South America and Africa too. Mountainous jungle regions that are hard for the government to control become hideouts for insurgents who fund themselves with drug sales.
@@fenlander7114they’re only traders..
If Zhao Wei's illegal business empire collapses, he can always get an acting job playing a cartoonishly evil villain. He has the perfect look! He belongs in a Bond movie. 9:07
He's just a front. The real boss is likely hiding in the mountain somewhere with his own military.
Mr. Han from Enter the Dragon
@@maggiejetson7904 real crime bosses are chinese thai myanmar and laos government
No he not boss. The real boss are Rothschild
He look like one of my uncle.
Thinking about it I almost fell for this Job scam, the Job was in Cambodia and they offer to pay $7000, they were so insistent I join them immediately to start a Job as a motion Graphics designer, my soul wasn’t just at peace, I consulted few friends and family members and they advised me to be careful, so happy I declined lol I remember even asked them to work remote they refused 🤣🤣🤣
Best to avoid all job opportunities by china or Chinese countries. Honestly how can anyone expect anything else from north koreas dearest friend😂
If i business owner i wont pay USD7000. No wonder easy bait.
@@cirihime9479 Yup, it seems too big for the area. A businessperson there wouldn't pay that.
@@monkemode8128 true
@@warfighter1988wtf does Chinese countries mean ?
mainland chinese "investments" absoolutely ruined my country's beautiful Sihanoukville beach province with a skyline of empty unfinished casinos and money laundering crime
That's not too bad in my country they do scamming, kidnapping and torture,drug dealing,kidnap for ransom money laundering they even implanted spy's to run as government officials to approved their illegal businesses and also they barely hire locals they mostly hired mainland Chinese and made them work while only having tourist visa
Just look at their building and roads in china and you would know you guys lucked out with just that
I agree as i worked in Sihanoukville from 2020 to 2023..
Beautiful country but ruined by the chinese mafias..😊😊
Sad to see this magical place gone. It was such a nice quite place 20 years ago.
No rich gambler want to go there since its not a "neutral" place like Kra highland or Spore casino.
Amazing that Laos still around." From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped 4 billion bombs on Laos. To this day, the country holds the dubious distinction of being the most heavily bombed neutral country in history."
Yet we are not taught that in school, we shoull all be taught of the monstrosities the USA has done to our much smaller nations.
American bombers dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs over the country not 4 billion.
@PhilmiiNutsakz Other nations aren't taught what they are doing to Laos. Dai views tried to culturally genocide the Laos culture during the 18th to 19th century. It was only after french conquest of indochina that vietnam failed to genocide them.
China controls som much of Laos economic wise and there are so many reports of racism but in Chinese media it make it look like china is helping Laos.
Both vietnam and china has a history of doing horrible things to Laos but they also don't talk about it.
@@schneejacques3502
Ikr!
We all know the victors wrote Laos history.
Laos and Vietnam suffered greatly from US intervention. but 4 billion total is likely an exaggeration. that's 1.2 million bombs every single day without rest for 9 years. the logistics of achieving that would be pretty impossible. several million total is a more realistic number (amounting to several 1000's to 10,000's of bombs a day)
I imagine all these Generals being interviewed get a cut to move product across border
Maybe not all, but enough to make it difficult
I would say if they didn’t accept a cut they would quickly be removed from power.
What u think the farmers are letting it in??
Very informative and interesting. More of this please!
It's incredible that we teach our children to be fair, honest, kind and generous. To be all the things that the world is simply not. It truly appears that the way of the world is uncompromise, deceit, cruelty and greed. I am often appalled by what is determined to be legal, and also NOT right. It's disheartening to know that pretty much most of the rich people in the world, attained their wealth on the backs of hard working people using exploitative methods. Mostly legal, but not right. Corporations have to be the worse of the worse, BUT they are legal.
I get the sense we only teach our kids to be so, that they not only maintain some semblance of themselves in this world, but to also keep them naive, pliable and thus easily taken advantage of by the world which knows how to manipulate those qualities by emulating them.
7:09 At least you can get KFC there.....
... 50% owned by CP food company from Thailand
That is outside of the building sure you can buy many stuffs.
Own by…. Himself
@@_Alfa.Bravo_ Nahh! It never is. Latest is Devyani International (I believe from India) bought the whole KFC in Thailand. You can googled the news
Yes, laos is a client state of China, but yet no RUclipsr has exposed that the Central Bank of China is now the only bank worldwide that can trade the Laos Kip Currency,
CBC faculitates all KIP exchanges to foreign currency even for the Central bank of Laos... And can manuipulate Laos KIP as seen fit
China OWNS laos currency and can manipulate the orice / The entire country with this power....
This is indeed the first time I know
No different from Canada is to US
what are your sources that state laos is a client state of china? care to share?
Canada, Ecuador, Cambodia, Panama & Nicaragua is using US dollar as currency 😂
@@silverianjannvs5315 argentina is about to dollarise their whole economy btw so i am not so sure what op is trying to convey here
Everytime the US controls Afghanistan the drug market moves there. When the Taliban has control the drug market goes back to South East Asia.
British empire create golden triangle. That are true
You don’t have an idea why that happens?
Because it's drug farming in Afghanistan ?
Re "the US controlled Afghanistan": think most of the $$$ went into the pockets of the CIA & associates? 🥳🥳
@@fly463 When the US is in power
Do the Sackler Family next.
J's don't snitch other j's
@@assaultlick2169 Wow, veiled anti semitism. Very original.
@@utuberme1 it's facts. Facts are very antisemitic. And there's no thin veil, I said it straight up. Kvetch harder
There's a Japanese yakuza hotspot in Thailand as well. Triads in Singapore. And this is a pattern in SE Asia. Enclaves of corrupt activity either tacitly supported or actively ignored by govts.
You've been around. Depending on the strength of different governments and their policies, our Asian crime syndicates pivot their activities to stay below radar or even achieve a symbiotic relationship with the authorities.
Similar story to what is being uncovered now in the philippines...
Context
A certain Alice Guo will enter this area soon meeting her friends and colleagues while insulting the authorities of the Philippines, negating the the fact that she grew up in a farm.
She already capture in Indonesia recently, she run to Singapore with her friends and then they separates Alice going to Indonesia and her friends escape to Hongkong.
@@mady1605 unfortunately it was her sister and cassandra ong that was intercepted, Alice Guo most probably have already reached this golden circle.
Guo Hua Ping to be precise.
@@albertdiga2491YES exactly, that would be the correct name!
Why am I learning about this through a documentary now? Doesn’t the US have a similar sort of system in South and Central America?
This is EXACTLY what happen in the offshore gaming operations (POGO) in the Philippines which is currently being crackdown by the government.. Money laundering, text scam, love scam. Human trafficking, kidnapping etc..
*The crime committed a Golden Triangle one year equal to one week in the United States or Central America yet it is the worst crime Zone in Asia*
I see we're just faking up statistics now
Bloomberg is not going to tell you about Wall Street or military-industrial complex... :D
they produce the drug, not use it;
Wumao comparing one of the largest countries and even part of a continent to a small area lol
Trying to change the topic eh, Wumao? 😂
Vietnamese police just catch one scamming hub in Golden Triangle.
We need Les Grossman to Talk to Flaming Dragons.
Also send in a shipment of Simple Jack DVDs while we're at it
The drug trade in South East Asia is controlled by a 🇨🇳CCP-appointed crime boss, Zhao Wei, operated in the China's BRI Special Economic Zone in Laos.
I think it's the CIA who uses the proceeds to fund militias and factions against the CCP. the CCP hates casino money laundering, they arrested Macau crime bosses.
Whatever current situation may be, but it was formed with the help of CIA as Americans have history of helping cartels operate their business with no disturbance.
@@jinlee2617 Here we go again, deflecting everything to the US.
@@jinlee2617CIA help promote your mom as a mamasan too
@@LanNguyen-vd4zt Obviously, you've had the same experience.🤓
In every country in the world drug tracking it's linked to it's local government.
It's just a lot of money that humans can't say no to it
Drug money filters into the legal economy, often to the point where it’s not in the government’s self interest to go after the big traffickers, because drug money brings development and investment
@@BGeezy4sheezyyeah they just arrest the non violent drug offenders to keep the prisons full
I went to the golden triangle economic zone last year with my gf, was a very weird experience to see inside the practically mini chinese city that was virtually empty
That’s what I’m thinking during this doc . What matters if you build fancy places kfc casino etc if no one has the money to go there there wasn’t even a workforce there ?
Casinos in North America are clearly outstanding corporate citizens. Never launder any money. Let alone the banks here. As for scams, we think America legalized a lot of them on Wall Street.
Lol, what does this have to do with North American casinos ?
Research Chinese money laundering in Vancouver Casino's. Then research owners of condo buildings in Vancouver. Its crazy.
@@MrWakawaka90 didn't you see the video? The US is constantly getting involved with what is going on in the Golden Triangle.
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@@Dead_Last ohhh.. that’s all you got? lol
How about the corruption of Americans involved in the drug trade in Mexico? I think there's only one country, the USA that can do something about it.
How about you actually talk about what's on the video instead of trying to change the topic? You're just trying to move the goalpost
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Bro also looks like a "generic hollywood Asian villain" .
There’s a reason why Hollywood goes for that look, cause it’s true
He look like me when I am 45.
Well, fiction imitated reality afterall. 😂😂😂
if you want to protect your witness, you should change her voice as well. Not just hiding her face. Thank you
One of the main lessons I take from this is that when you criminalize drugs, then criminals will be in charge of drugs.
Unfortunately, it’s the citizens of those countries who have to live under the shadow of that corruption and greed.
Ethics and morals become subjective when $billions are involved
That Cyberpunk-style background music goes pretty hard ngl.
This video doesn't serve the truth but the American interests in the region.
If you studied and learnt about the Golden Triangle, you know that it is not a one-man band.
It’s controlled, also, by the military in Myanmar and Thailand.
However, this fact is omitted in this video. Why? 🤔
Myanmar doesn't control its northern territory. it's an active civil war, read a book.
However, the location of the special zone in the video is Laos. Thailand and Myanmar only border this economic zone and do not participate in its operation.
Isn’t it obvious by its constant emphasis on Chinese? When the whole incident didn’t happen in China nor directed by anyone physically in China. The story did not even have a Chinese victim, but Chinese government gets blamed for the crime. US media just hates China.
Myanmar junta is definitely partially in on it (at least the video mentioned MNDAA, a Burmese militia in the north funded by China)
@@ThomasChestersonuwsa, mndaa, NDAA, aa, tnla are closely related to China. Only a handful other groups are true democracy fighters
GT was worse in the past, with warlords building up militias using drug as funding source. Scam centers is just slightly better and until the 3 nations nearby are stable and developed, this place would remain a criminal hub of some sort.
The CIA doesn't like competition.
Stop hating on my man Chinese El chapo..
Great video. Please do one on Cambodia’s political corruption and the CLV DTA agreement.
Same going on in the Vietnam-Cambodia border.
Same area
@@JoeRogansForehead No, Cambodia isn't in the Golden Triangle. Still I believe the comment talked about Sihanoukville, which is also pretty much like what is going on in the city in this video. Chinese casinos, businesses, and eventually takeover of the city
@@ThomasChestersonChinese are doing that in Africa also so I would imagine the same is going on in their neighboring countries
So Laos is to China what the Americas are to the the US.
Proxy states. Yet China says they never exploit or take advantage of poorer and weaker nations, or interfere in foreign governments.
There’s a Chinese movie called ‘No More Bets’ that talk about this exact issue.
Makes me think of the monks in the hills that were addicted to the mentioned substance.
Thank you for exposing this 🙏🙂❤️
Singapore government is laughing at this documentaries...
Why?
@@lansvale28Singapore is mostly Chinese😅😂
@@buzz5969 but what’s that got to do with this story? In Singapore there may be majority ethnically Chinese, but they are Singapore first.
@@lansvale28 Birds of a feather 🪶… Im sure You know the rest…
@@buzz5969 nah that’s just racist
Subscribed.
I think this is the man behind the escape of Alice Guo (Guo Hua Ping).
China's doing the same as the united state in mexico and south America.
lol naw China pretty much OWNS central america and south america now, they control all the ports around the globe now and are able to smuggle drugs easily to any country this way
Why would the US be feeding the drug industry it's suffering from lol
Lol always someone pointing finger at US even when US is not the topic, it’s honestly impressive
@@abdiganiaden really , and this video is clearly finger pointing to China is ok with you right ?
@@lalatubby4836 yes?
With all this information why aren't they arrested especially in a foreign country ???
They are on Laos' lands, amd Laos is controlled by China.
@@КеијіLaos isn’t controlled by China. They have close ties but they aren’t directly linked. This video is EXTREMELY misleading and aims to continuously promote hostile attitudes to the Chinese government. Hilarious considering the CIA and the US have done far worse.
Well it’s not like the American government isn’t known of doing undercover work. Sending in a small handful men to take the target out or kidnap them and bring them somewhere they can in-force their law.. the reason they haven’t done anything is, either they been doing very well fattening their pockets with on point bribes. Or he just not as important to them but the only reason they’re speaking on him is for the public..
it's kind of bizarre how the space vacated by quality vice programming has, to a degree, been replaced by bloomberg of all organizations.
A Certain American three letter agency is in the same business along with heads of intelligence agencies and have been for many years.
I don’t get it, once you get traffic then you just go to an embassy say you lost it and just request for a new one.
Those victim are being imprisioned by these organization, they put their worker in the special building guarded by their own security and being monitored for 24/7. Sometimes they even operated in the edge of the city area far away from city center, also you should know that this is Southeast Asia, most of their politician and police is bribed by these criminal. That's why these organization could operate for decades
the real bosses are the companies scapegoating this random criminal lol
I wonder why they haven’t done the same doc on Las Vegas? 🤔
Because its got nothing to do with China
Las Vegas in Asia???🧐
@@jamesspringer5854 they just wanna paint china as the villain while neglecting the transgressions in their own backyard
there is no corruption AT ALL in Las Vegas thats why
@robertplatte5700 what world do u live in?
Inability of Westerners to understand cultures is what makes them assume that someone has power. Africans and Asians have something in common - giving respect even to the point of servitude to someone who has achieved success or is older than them.
You may think the person has power, but he really doesn't. He is just living off of the power wilfully extended to him by people cause of his success.
In your mind how does America compare? Are “powerful” people in the west actually powerful or is there a synonymous social age-hierarchy granting them power?
You have a unique viewpoint from my current perspective
The demand has always been there, so the supply follows~
This great documentary video 👍👍👍👍👍
Suprised bloomberg will go this far to hunt drugs abroad but wont do same in america where silicon valley alone consumes 90 percent of colombias bigest export 😂😂😂😂😂 u all know what am talking about😂😂😂😂
classic whataboutism tactic, trying to deflect anything negative about china to the us
Classic whataboutist tactic. Deflecting anything unflattering to China to the US
The US government ensures that its citizens are not imprisoned and live as slaves like the people in this area, that's the difference
“You all know what I’m talking about”
Yeah we do , cause saying colombias biggest export is about as subtle as a kick in the teeth
Whataboutism
Very interesting
chinese bussinesman is so cunning. no wonder they found success anywhere
Not only cunning, but ruthless also, don't care if the expense is the others' human rights
Many Filipinos, Cambodians, Indians, and Indonesians are lured & trapped in the Chinese crime ring-held Golden Triangle zone.
Chinese is all about money.
Maybe partly why Thailand is in the process of legalizing Casinos
Any special service needs an unofficial funding for its operations. Either Russian or Chinese. Here it is.
you forgot the CIA as the main backer for global discourse
@@Kennon959 No
@@Kennon959If the CIA really had this ability, they wouldn't let you reveal these "secrets" so easily.
@@俞强声-q4kThe CIA have actively distributed drugs as well as narcotics not only to US civilians but to other regions, absolutely destroying them. Also, US agents destroying democracy and popular vote is extremely common 😂 they do it to their allies too.
Ecstacy traffic used to be huge here because of the precursor saffrole. Has the global supply switched to the PMK method? I'm just curious because they didn't say anything about it
13:16 The "journalist" says Laos is a Chinese satellite state. Pretty funny coming from westerners when the US has multiple statutes states across Europe and latin America
@@travisfubu9053 at least he’s allowed to report (compared your dictator countries). The story was about this region, why should they mention South America?
Laos is definitely a satellite state of China and both are complicit in drug production and distribution, what’s difficult to understand about this?
All of Europe is nothing more than a vassal to the USA.
@@lansvale28Typical You Tube comment section "whataboutism"? And it's usually "b-b-but what about the CIA and the USA"?
I have been through the border at Tachileik and it is really sad to see the poverty and open air drug selling.
12:06 Jeff Bezos is taking notes for his "Fulfillment centers".
I have never seen a chinese media do a documentary about American drug dealers in America
64 billion? U kidding how can humans figure how to steal that much money. I remember once in my life they was a similar kinda scam they said put money on app u get profit the next day without doing nothing. They stole 4k to 5k usd from my friends and i 😢 i never trusted an app giving money in my life again💔
Don't give money to anyone on the internet or strangers on call
I don't think that the complex interconnection of financial interests at such large scale is sustainable by having a single guy sitting on top of the pyramid. Operations at this scale are impossible to be controlled by a single individual.
In fact, at this point in time and with all the hindsight we have achieved, we should not see organized crime anymore with the same mentality as we used to see old school-criminal enterprises that were typically organized under a vertical mafia style hierarchy, where there's a single old guy sitting on top of the food chain, the risk it too big for decision-making to not be spread around horizontally amidst parallel regional interests. Such a complex enterprise cannot be undertaken at this large-scale unless behind it are entities such as govenments and international banks controlling the flow of money and decision making.
That chinese guy is just the face of the operation and he will the be the scapegoat in case things go wrong while the continuation of the enterprise will be maintained without having it collapse when he goes down. That guy might seem to us as someone wielding infinite power but I think he is in the most unfortunate position that one might ever be in such organization.
The real power, paradoxically lies in legal entities.
Yes, he's actually got the worst job in the organization.
Drugs are and will always be a demand-side problem.
Demand can always be induced. That demand is created by the lack of something else.
That's why once Thailand launched war on drugs, they turned to Casino and scams. Drugs aren't really the game now
Micro tavor is a vibe
I just have one question: has the FBI taken care of all drug dealers and scammers IN THE USA?
Why you guys have to do something that you are not asked to do in other countries? I don’t get it.
Whatever happens in other countries is their problems. You take care of your of own problems first.
I’m just awed by the fact how these individuals in the video care for people in Thailand/Laos when they have lots of people in the US who need their help.
Even if what they are saying is true , I don't think anyone or even the government in Laos will listen to USA. USA dropped largest number of bombs on this small country .
Wherever the Chinese regime goes, that place becomes *hopeless.*
Whether it's Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Zambia, Kenya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cambodia, or Laos.
For afghanistan, it is the contrary. Afghanistan only had hope when it had the possibility of economic development with china and russia because western genocidal sanctions
They obviously know that if they are gonna become rich, there needs to be poor people somewhere-somehow...the west has already done this, but they have done it in a more discreet and patient process
It would be more interesting to see the reason though. In last year the main scam centers in northern Myanmar was taken down and the leader expediated to China. In the past decade, many Chinese criminal centers are forced out of China due to police operations. I do believe that the Golden triangle have strong ties to illicit activities, but the rationale of Chinese government in this particular case remains interesting.
I agree with you in the case of Hong Kong. I don’t know anything about Argentina. But many infrastructure built in Africa at least, did provide a lot of benefits.
Now Bangladesh
Similar theme to the Lazarus Heist on BBC sounds
Who regulate, oversees and hold laws against international organize crimes?
Much like Las Vegas
But he did what they wanted, he has full control. FULL CONTROL
are people tortured in Las Vegas ??? huh?
@@RickGifford28 tortured, killed, assassinated, attacked, beaten, stolen and much more.. only difference was they wasn’t fully in control of Las Vegas like the golden triangle is. I guess you don’t know the history of Las Vegas. It’s not a paradise like you think mate.
@@RickGifford28 tortured, killed, assassinated, attacked, beaten, stolen and much more.. only difference was they wasn’t fully in control of Las Vegas like the golden triangle is. I guess you don’t know the history of Las Vegas. It’s not a paradise like you think mate.
Even the Chinese traffickers or drug lords pass through my Goldin triangle. Sometimes they pass through the river. Sometimes there is a doma who passes through the river and the high way of the Goldin triangle at the same time. That was my news.
US is doing the same in south of the boarder. US is the arsonist and firefighter at the same time.
IT is discussed today in thailand parliament. sadly our government is kind of involved in this business.
seems his wife is Australian
No way? You don’t say .
Chinese Australian
@@centercannothold yeah, but she is protected by Australian government, not China's one
SAY NO TO POGO
legalize drugs, and this goes away.
So do the profits😊
no it won't. Drugs destroy people's lives.
EU is in Europe as the "People's Republic of China" is in China.
It's not the only country in China.
"Republic of China" is on Taiwan in China.
Laos, thailand, Myanmar.
But the crime boss is some chinese guy
That place used to be controlled by a Burmese armed group. In 2011, they robbed a Chinese cargo ship and killed over a dozen crew members. Then their leader was arrested in Laos. Afterwards, Zhao Wei appeared and took over that area
Sounds like a fun place
I Wonder why there is no Doc on Las Vegas....oooo it's related to US right a country which can never do wrong😂😂
Whataboutism
to be fair, this is SE Asia
have Casino here, especially in Thailand, it's just eye magnet
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Calling Laos a client state is insane given that the US tries to create client states in SE Asia and truly the rest of the world
worked in banks and casino before, guess what, similar it is... Singapore gov knows well off shore banking, where politicians love. similarly whoever has corrupted or illegal money love casino... some of main clients of off shore banking were the imprisoned corrupted x president of taiwan, daughter of the x junta of myanmar were the clients of off shore banking...
Trust a Facebook ad, come on!
From what I have heard and seen , getting into the zone is not easy .
Even some locals need a permit to enter .
Border guards on roads ' crossing the border ' !
Know a regular Aussie down south , been there a few years , says its a ' No go zone ' and ' Avoided by most '
I first saw it some months ago , an American U tuber , eventually managed to get just over .
Says he was rather scared about what he saw and heard . Basically saw ladies being auctioned :-(
The CCP needs the $$$ , so will do what it wants to :-(
3:58 that is absolutely nothing compared to what goes through there.
and how about US scammers?
This vid is on Asia kids😊
@@pjsulivas US are too busy making money legitimately. Ask your dictator why your economy is in the toilet. Don’t blame Americans.
@@buzz5969B-b-but I watched a video about a specific topic a-a-and I NOW WANT IT TO BE ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE 😫!!!