Thread:Univero/@comment-24166893-20190726015356/@comment-24166893-20190726024228

True, but le's take a look at the issue. Virtually every source shows that the Chinese "Mafia" has a total membership that outnumbers that of the Italians, Russians, Japanese, Mexicans, Turks, Indians, Nigerians, and Colombians and then some. Those sources also show that the Chinese "Mafia" has a presence in more countries than any other ethnic mafia. The total revenue earned by it is also greater than any two ethnic mobs, the make more money than any of the other ethnic mobs make from drugs from their dominance of either the counterfeit goods trade or the illegal soccer betting racket. Within China their connections to the Communist Party and the PLA gives them a level of protection comparable to that which the Russian "Mafia" gets in Russia or the Mexican cartels get in Mexico, surpassing the protection the Yakuza has in Japan or the Italian outfits have in Italy. Their influence in Southeast Asia is comparable to that of the Mexican Cartels and Colombian Cartels in Latin America.  Their dominance of the drug trade and smuggling in the Far East is comparable to the dominance of the Mexican Cartels in the United States. I have researched this extensively and while estimates of the membership and revenue of the various ethnic mobs varies widely, depending on the sources none of them hold a candle to the Chinese "Mafia"