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  • China’s Crackdown and Myanmar’s Scam Hubs: Inside the Rise and Fall of a Borderland Crime Economy
    6th January 2026

    China’s Crackdown and Myanmar’s Scam Hubs: Inside the Rise and Fall of a Borderland Crime Economy

    For years, Myanmar’s borderlands functioned as a shadow economy where cyber fraud, human trafficking, and political power quietly converged. Scam hubs like Laukkaing and Shwe Kokko did not arise from state collapse alone—they were actively enabled by protection deals with militias, tolerance from military elites, and alignment with China’s regional…

    Alice Quan

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