China will wipe out all gang-related crime, reaffirmed the top prosecutor on Monday, saying that China has indicted 230,000 people who were engaged in mafia-like gangs and other crimes, and 2,987 people who acted as their protectors, in the three-year national crackdown on gang crimes from 2018 to 2021.
To meet Chinese people’s higher demand for safety, China launched a national campaign to crack down on gang crimes from 2018 to 2021, especially severe violent crimes that jeopardized people’s sense of security and those oppressing women and children, said the Supreme People s Procuratorate (SPP) at a press conference on Monday.
TV series shines light on organized crime crackdown
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Hit Chinese TV series based on real-life cases arouses nationwide interest in crackdown on organized crime
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In U.S. and China, Competition Rhetoric Meets Inequality Concerns
Posted by John Chan | Apr 5, 2021
Two weeks after the U.S.’ and China’s foreign ministers met for face-to-face dialogues for the first time under the Biden administration, relations between the two governments remain solidly frosty. But as both sides exchange rhetoric about competition and confrontation on the international stage, at home, that talk has become entwined with the issue of domestic inequality.
In the U.S., the Biden administration recently announced a mammoth infrastructure bill to be funded with a series of tax hikes on corporations. That plan is being sold by the administration as a powerful tool to target income and racial inequality at home, but also, as AP’s Ellen Knickmeyer and Lisa Mascaro report,