Exploiting Opportunities and Adapting to Change: Organised Crime in Hong Kong, China, and Japan

About the Event

The ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong, China’s campaigns against organised crime, Japan's harsher laws targeting crime and continuing stagnation, together with the pandemic and its effects on the global economy, represent only some of the challenges that Asian-based Organised Crime Groups (OCGs) have faced in recent years. The panel will discuss how long-established OCGs adjust to – and take part in – political instability, how they exploit new opportunities provided by the Internet to expand their business online and offline, and how they react to increased law-enforcement pressure and the emergence of competing OCGs. Bearing in mind that Asia varies greatly across the geographical, social, and legal particularities of the region, this event looks at how OCGs operate in China, Hong Kong, and Japan.

T. Wing Lo

Professor Lo is Associate Vice-President (Student Affairs) of City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Chinese organised…