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China’s Ministry of Public Security announced last week that a multi-organizational initiative is underway to target cross-border gambling. The two-pronged approach will remain in place for at least six months. Officials will work night and day across the country to locate and dismantle gambling operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Additional efforts to stop illegal gambling are arriving. The heightened interest is an attempt not only to ensure Chinese citizens adhere to rules and regulations but also to keep money from slipping beyond China’s borders and into other countries.<\/p>\n
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One of the new primary targets is the financing structure of the activity. The government is likely to scrutinize even more minutely every financial transaction during the period to uncover any anomaly. Officials also plan to work to shut down or block access to gaming sites and apps that are accessible via smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n
The penalty for organizing gambling trips outside of China is 10 years in jail for the most serious offenders. With that in mind, conducting illegal gambling activity domestically can carry even stiffer sentences.<\/strong><\/p>\nChina believes that other countries need to do more to prevent gambling infiltration into Chinese society. It has successfully pressured Cambodia and others to take action. However, it may not have as much success with the Philippines.<\/p>\n
Rodrigo Duterte, the country’s president, made it clear a few years ago that he wasn’t going to submit<\/a> to China’s iron will. He isn’t likely to change his mind as pressure increases this time, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a dozen people face prosecution in China for their involvement in illegal online gambling. They allegedly have ties to sites in the Philippines, which could lead China to pressure that country to be more proactive in blocking the activity. GGRAsia, citing information from China’s China Central Television, reports that China arrested 14 people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":207047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69069],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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