Episode 3: What’s a Friend? from The Chinatown Sting
Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Being only half Chinese, Tina Wong felt like an outsider growing up in Chinatown. But then she met another girl who was a natural leader and included her in the pack. After they grew up, that friend would eventually recruit her to accept and move packages of heroin. Now Tina faces a choice: betray her old friend, or condemn her baby daughter to growing up without a mom.
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| 0:00.0 | The guy thought he had a good thing going, a good job, and two lovers. |
| 0:05.8 | That is, until this triangle got complicated. |
| 0:09.9 | And somebody had to go. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Josh Manquowitz, and this is deadly engagement, an all-new podcast from Dateline. |
| 0:17.8 | It's a story that's sure to keep you guessing as lovers turn on each other in a |
| 0:24.5 | desperate bid to avoid prison. Listen now. |
| 0:32.5 | Pushkin |
| 0:36.6 | Hey everyone, before we get into this episode, I wanted to let you know that you can listen to the full season of the Chinatown staying, add free right now, by signing up for Pushkin Plus. |
| 0:51.1 | You'll also get bonus episodes, full audiobooks, and other true crime binges from your |
| 0:56.7 | favorite Pushkin hosts and authors. Find Pushkin Plus on the Chinatown Sting show page on Apple |
| 1:02.8 | podcasts or at pushkin.fm.fm slash plus. Previously on the Chinatown Sting. |
| 1:11.1 | Asian criminal groups are emerging on the American landscape. |
| 1:15.5 | Law enforcement authorities, particularly federal, |
| 1:17.9 | cannot afford to wait until these organizations have fully emerged. |
| 1:22.7 | If I had to summarize why these gangs exist, |
| 1:26.4 | I can summarize it in one word, racism. |
| 1:29.3 | That is the core, the root of the issue, is racism. |
| 1:34.6 | Were you crying? |
| 1:36.7 | Yeah, because I was mad. |
| 1:39.1 | Not at yourself, not at the rules? |
| 1:42.0 | Well, the whole thing, everything. |
| 1:53.6 | When Tina Wong was 11 years old, she met another kid, with an incredible knack for getting others to do things they wouldn't normally do. Tina remembers they met while they were playing |
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