China’s Push to Purge Organized Crime Casts Shadow Over Private Businesses
www.wsj.com
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s push to crush organized crime has led to prosecutions and asset seizures targeting prominent entrepreneurs and sent chills through private businesses in the world’s second-largest economy.

"Legal scholars and criminal-defense lawyers say local authorities, under pressure to deliver results, sometimes blur the lines between criminal syndicates—which face heavy penalties for severe offenses—and legitimate companies that engaged in illegal behavior."

in the dystopian world of contemporary china, the law applies to businesses

    • save_vs_death [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      ah, dang, i could have sworn i pasted the achived link but i didn't, sorry

      https://archive.ph/maV75