What potential is there for states/governments to utilize gangs and organized crime rings in South East Asia as "hybrid warfare" agents?
For example, Foreign Policy Magazine published an article last year detailing how the Russian government has used the Russian Mafia to carry out espionage in other countries, carry out assassinations, launder money and smuggle weapons, etc...
... And just 2 months ago, a US Congressional committee published a report on China's "United Front Works Department", whose mission is to exploit and lasso ethnic-Chinese in other countries into unwittingly advancing Beijing's interests abroad. The report details attempts by the UFWD to use Triads to undermine Taiwan and to agitate for "Reunification" with China.
(i.e. surrender Taiwan's sovereingty to Chinese rule)
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What potential is there for states/governments to utilize gangs and organized crime rings in South East Asia as "hybrid warfare" agents?
For example, Foreign Policy Magazine published an article last year detailing how the Russian government has used the Russian Mafia to carry out espionage in other countries, carry out assassinations, launder money and smuggle weapons, etc...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/12/how-the-world-of-spies-became-a-gangsters-paradise-russia-cyberattack-hack/
... And just 2 months ago, a US Congressional committee published a report on China's "United Front Works Department", whose mission is to exploit and lasso ethnic-Chinese in other countries into unwittingly advancing Beijing's interests abroad. The report details attempts by the UFWD to use Triads to undermine Taiwan and to agitate for "Reunification" with China.
(i.e. surrender Taiwan's sovereingty to Chinese rule)
https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/China%27s%20Overseas%20United%20Front%20Work%20-%20Background%20and%20Implications%20for%20US_final_0.pdf
... Is there any history of that sort of thing happening in South East Asia?
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