Thread:Univero/@comment-24166893-20190726015356

Actually I provided citations / source links in the Cyberpunk page for the Triads. You'll see what I mean when I say that Chinese organized crime has dominated the underworld (especially drugs, smuggling, and piracy) throughout Southeast Asia since the 1800s, and have dominated the vice rackets (gambling and prostitution) in the cities of Thailand and Malaysia for that long too. In the Golden Triangle, every major drug lord has been Chinese or half Chinese. Money laundering networks in Southeast Asia are in their hands and they often finance and/or provide "guidance" to non-Chinese criminal outfits (e.g. Malays). Of course they have a virtual monopoly on the underworld in China, have a stranglehold in the underworld of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Macao, and control the rackets in most Chinatowns around the world. Not to mention dominating the global trade in counterfeit goods, environmental crime worldwide (illegal timber and fishing, ivory and wildlife, etc), and control the world's biggest illegal sportsbetting operation (soccer). Compared to the Chinese mafia (Triads, Black Societies, Drug Lords, Tongs, etc), the Yakuza, Mafia, Russians and Mexicans are second tier mobs.<ac_metadata title="Yakuza and Triads"> </ac_metadata>