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The way they will not be subject to prosecution by China is if they promote the interest of the

Chinese Communist Party and Chinese government abroad.

So networks that traffic in wildlife or that traffic in drugs abroad will cultivate local

politicians, government officials and promote Chinese businesses broadly.

And there is often very strong overlap between Chinese interests in legal economies and networks

that also engage in variety of contraband smuggling.

I'm Jacob Schultz and this is the LawFair podcast February 28, 2022.

In the national security world, including on LawFair, lots of attention gets paid to

China's tech sector and other parts of its economy, comparatively less gets paid to

China's illicit economies, illegal trade involving China and other countries around the world.

But China has been involved in numerous acts of transnational criminal activity with occasionally

lacks enforcement.

And there's a new series of Brookings papers and blog posts about this very subject.

To talk it through, I sat down with Von De Felbert Brown, the director of the initiative

on non-state armed actors and a senior fellow in the foreign policy program of Brookings.

Along with Medea Afsau, a fellow in the foreign policy program of Brookings.

We talk through the project and through papers that each of them have written on the subject,

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