China’s Push to Purge Organized Crime Casts Shadow Over Private Businesses
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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

  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    It gets even better:

    "Mr. Zhang couldn’t be reached for comment. His lawyers said the allegations against him neither fit the government’s definitions of organized crime nor involved serious violence. While acknowledging that some of Mr. Zhang’s employees used coercive methods to deal with business disputes, the lawyers said these employees caused only minor injuries in one instance, and their actions therefore didn’t meet the legal criteria of routinely using violence to oppress and cause harm to the public."

    The emphasis is mine. China is genociding organized crime. This is truly draconian.