Red Mafia & Black Mafia: Asian Police-Political Theater and Sports Gambling
There are two events occurring in Asia that show the close links between organized crime and top government officials. The first is in Hong Kong. The territory - nominally, an independent part of China under the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ agreement hammered out with the departing Brits in 1997, is in the grip of a series of demonstrations protesting new legislation allowing the extradition of criminal suspects to China. The demonstrations were mostly peaceful until organized crime (the Triads) got...