Will china’s crackdown on scammers work?
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←All episodes Drum Tower | China WILL CHINA’S CRACKDOWN ON SCAMMERS WORK? OUR WEEKLY PODCAST ON CHINA. THIS WEEK, WE EXAMINE THE COMMUNIST PARTY’S EFFORTS TO TACKLE THE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR
INDUSTRY OF ONLINE SCAMS A booming $500 billion industry is thriving in the shadows. Online scams have become as pervasive and lucrative as the global drugs trade. But fraudsters first honed
their tactics in China on local victims before expanding their operations worldwide. The Chinese government has been cracking down on scam groups—but will its anti-fraud efforts be enough?
Ted Plafker, _The Economist_’s China correspondent, and Sue-Lin Wong, our Asia correspondent and host of our eight-part podcast series Scam Inc, ask: what is the Communist Party doing to
stop scammers?