\n[The Ministry will] continue to advance the work of combating cross-border gambling in depth, resolutely curbing cross-border gambling chaos and striving to create a safe and stable political and social environment,”<\/strong> the Public Security statement read.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nXi believes the considerable outward flow of money through casinos in Macau and elsewhere throughout Asia presents a great risk to China’s national security.<\/p>\n
Macau to Appease Mission<\/b><\/h2>\n
Macau is a semi-autonomous region, as it operates under China’s “one country, two systems” policy principle. China provides Macau with national security. In exchange, Macau follows much of the People’s Republic’s lead when it comes to laws and regulations.<\/p>\n
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Macau, unlike Hong Kong, the other SAR in China, has stayed in China’s good graces since its return from Portugal nearly 23 years ago. In response to the mainland’s directives, Macau’s Judicial Police have recently ramped up its own efforts to crack down on cross-border gambling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Macau police have detained and charged numerous individuals allegedly involved in the junket business. Most recently, two men with alleged links to Chau’s Suncity were arrested late last month and charged with running an illegal online gambling syndicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
China continues to proclaim that individuals and groups involved in the illegal facilitation of cross-border gambling will be targeted in 2022 and the years ahead. Gambling is mostly illegal everywhere in China, other than in Macau, one of two Special Administrative Regions (SARs) in the People’s Republic. The two exceptions are China’s state-run lotteries — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":201916,"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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