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作者：伯王密来源：原创发布日期：08-23

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China crackdown on cyber scams nets thousands but leaves networks intact_我的网站

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一 | BANGKOK -- Zhang Hongliang, a former restaurant manager in central China, took various gigs in and outside China to support his family after losing his job during the COVID-19 pandemic.In March, a job offer to teach Chinese cooking at a restaurant led him into a cyber scam compound in Myanmar, where he was instead ordered to lure Chinese into giving up their savings for fake investment schemes via social media platforms.Zhang is one of tens of thousands of people, mostly but not all Chinese, who have become ensnared in cyber scam networks run by powerful Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asia. Regional and Chinese authorities have netted thousands of people in a crackdown, but experts say they are failing to root out the local elites and criminal networks that are bound to keep running the schemes.When scam operations are shut down in one place they often just resurface elsewhere. The problem is an embarrassment for Beijing and is discouraging ordinary Chinese from traveling to Southeast Asia out of fear they might be duped or kidnapped and caught up in a cyber scam operation. In recent years, media reports have uncovered instances of young people being lured to places in Cambodia or Myanmar for high-paying jobs, only to be forced to work as scammers. Rescue organizations say people are regularly beaten or face physical punishments such as being forced to run laps if they don't perform well. In August, China, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar agreed to set up a joint police operations center to tackle cyber scams in the region. On Oct. 10, China’s Ministry of Public Security announced that its “Summer Operation” had successfully brought back 2,317 scam suspects from northern Myanmar to China.China calls such people suspects, though experts say most of them are victims who were forced to work for the criminals. They question how they will be treated once back in China. The schemes based in countries like Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia are run by Chinese bosses hand-in-hand with local elites. Many are based in places where China has financed big construction projects through leader Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative.Myanmar's border regions long have been a magnet for criminals — historically including drug producers and traffickers — because of lax law enforcement. Such places are generally under the control of ethnic minority armed groups, either opposed to or allied with Myanmar’s central government. Some also cooperate with organized crime gangs.“From the vantage point of the Chinese government, it’s a source of extreme embarrassment that you have so many of these Chinese criminals operating all across Southeast Asia,” said Jason Tower, an expert on transnational crime with the United States Institute of Peace.The syndicates also are known for “pig butchering” cons, where scammers entice individuals, often halfway across the world, to invest their money in bogus schemes after duping them into digital romances.The scammers divide their targets into two categories: Chinese and non-Chinese. They use scripts, images of models and influencers and translation software to trick the people they contact by phone or online into parting with their money. Victims can be anywhere in the world.The criminals have “ridden on the shoulders of the Belt and Road Initiative,” said Tower, who outlined links between the criminals and Chinese state enterprises, think tanks and government officials in a 2020 report written for the United States Institute of Peace.Zhang was working in Thailand and on a visa run to Laos when he met the man who lured him to the scam compound in Myanmar. Giving what he said was his last name, Gao, he claimed to be a broker and travel agent for Chinese living in Thailand. Zhang and his wife wanted extra money to pay for in vitro fertilization to have another child. Gao suggested he go work in Myawaddy, in eastern Myanmar’s Kayin state, teaching a local chef how to cook Chinese dishes in Gao’s new restaurant. The pay would be double what Zhang made in China.Zhang was wary. Since a 2021 coup, military-controlled Myanmar has been embroiled in civil conflict. But Gao reassured him that he wouldn’t be doing anything illegal and said the restaurant would have plenty of customers since many cyber scam businesses were operating in the area.That might have raised a red flag but it was only once he got to Myanmar that Zhang realized his predicament. He asked to go back home, saying there was a family emergency. His family helped him scrape together some 40,000 yuan ($5,472) to pay off the debt Gao claimed he owed him, and he slipped away one night, swimming across the Moei River into Thailand, where he turned himself in to Thai police, who contacted the Chinese Embassy.Zhang showed the AP copies of his deportation notice from the Thai Immigration police and a temporary ID card. He returned to China in late June and was questioned by Chinese police but not detained. He has been sharing his story on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, to alert others to the risks and says people often contact him about relatives trapped in cyber scam compounds.“We all went out with this wonderful sense of hope, but then reality slammed us in the face,” he said.In total, China has detained some 4,000 suspects and returned them back to China. The Ministry of Public Security has claimed “breakthrough results” through operations in coordination with Myanmar authorities. On Monday, they announced they had repatriated another 2,349 people. The ministry did not respond to a faxed request for comment.One 31-year old former chef who was smuggled into Myanmar’s Wa State earlier this year said he saw his company hand over four people to Chinese police with little fanfare in September. Other companies did the same, said the man, who was smuggled into Myanmar and later rescued by a non-profit organization. He declined to be named out of fear of government retribution, and The Associated Press could not independently verify his account.Overall, the enforcement actions don’t seem very comprehensive, experts say. The groups now based in Myanmar originally were located in Cambodia. When Cambodia cracked down on online gambling rings and illegal casinos in 2019, many of the groups just moved to less well policed places in Myanmar. Some were taken over by rival gangs.China's efforts to repair its image have so far not made much headway, said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor of political science at Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University. “You can crack down on these symptoms and the manifestations … that you can see in the borderland areas," he said, "but they’ll come back unless you really have a sustained effort." -—-AP researcher Wanqing Chen in Beijing and AP writers Grant Peck and Jintamas Saksornchai in Bangkok contributed to this report.。 2026年8月，人类文明在院线遭遇了一次公开处刑。

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三 | 门庭冷落的《牛来》，一时间高朋满座，所有人蜂拥而至前往电影院，像是崩赴一场盛大的赤石狂欢。

四 | 到不是说大家都有异食癖，只是好奇："这玩意儿到底是有多烂啊"。而接下来发生的故事，才是26年8月真正的科幻大电影。《牛来》单日票房从3900元，一路暴涨到35万，不到两天翻了近90倍。累计票房更是破了500万，排片从几乎归零，猛增到上万场，直到笔者写下这篇稿件时，票房已经突破了千万。（甚至各大平台都还没评分）对于一部抽象小电影而言，这太夸张了。短短一个周末，它从2026年院线里最没有存在感的电影，变成全国影院连夜加场的对象。线下如此抽象，线上也不例外。91个相关话题挂在各大热搜榜上，像献给神灵的一排整齐祭品。

五 | 就这样，《牛来》成了无数人的观影第一选，在这个诸神争霸的暑期档，一堆影帝的票房拜倒在它的“牛威”之下，而这就叫——牛币驱逐劣币。

六 | 当然，买了电影票的我们也不算亏，因为除了赤石，《牛来》还凭借太过抽象，带我们看了一场教科书级别的“反向发行”。网友们自发的二创、宣传、自制海报等等，一时间让互联网上各式各样的梗图满天飞，这部看了让人想全自动卸载大脑的作品，却获得满座喝彩。（你想牛出什么样的人生）客观来说，其他电影宣发的经费够做十个《牛来》了，但没有水军，没有买量的《牛来》，在发行方全程躺平的情况，靠着网友和影院实现了全自动发行。

七 | （影院里大家自己画的海报）第三级台阶，它是什么，取决于围观的人想看什么你问为什么大家这么疯狂？因为《牛来》的意义早就不是一部抽象小电影，它是2026年互联网的一次集体行为艺术。你花的30块，并非为了去品鉴某种美味的剧情，而是"我赶上了这趟车"的入场券。放映厅里，画面一出的全场爆笑，观影时和朋友的分享，散场后大家的鼓掌，每一个点点滴滴汇聚如同星火般汇聚。

八 | 这哪里是看电影啊，这分明是一场大型赛博团建。那团建的意义是什么呢？当然是开心啦！但这满场的欢笑，真的只有乐子么？不，比起嘲笑，用朝圣来解释这一切，或许更准确。朝圣的对象不是那粗制滥造小电影，而是"我参与了这件事"本身。就像李文亚被围观成电子宠物，就像奶龙从烂梗飞升成名画恶搞——时代需要一个祭品，来安放人们对"精致"的不满。这一次，祭品是《牛来》。第四级台阶：悲悯的底色《牛来》，喜剧的内核不是别人逗你笑，而是你坐在那自己就想笑，导演对喜剧的理解远超周星驰，沈腾之流。没有复杂的包袱，没有刻意地逗笑，没有高深的技巧，导演质朴、纯粹、摆烂的心态竟然无意中洗刷了人们浮躁的内心。刻意反转的剧情，频繁高调的宣发，动辄过亿的制作，顶流明星的阵容……背离正常的商业操作常理，也许并不需要过度地迎合、夸张的成本，大道至简，主创直接开出了最简单的药方，看似荒诞，而真正荒诞的从来不是这部刚上映的电影，而是由来已久的人心。