Recently we talked to a classmate who had been to the United States with his grandchildren on WeChat, and we talked about the Chinese who are now there, if they are the rich people who live in that more deserted big villa, or the rich people who behave in a higher level, they are likely to be concerned by the local special organizations. Because these rich people come from China, China is not here to see, and the United States is even more at their idea.
Not that the U.S. welcomes rich people? but the reality is that Washington has intensified oversight over foreign investment over the years, especially from China. In the report of the Foreign Investment Review Commission in 2024, hundreds of cases of money laundering suspected have been named. These rich people carry money in the past, some of which may have been legally earned by business, but also some backgrounds are unclear. China's anti-corruption operations started in 2018, so that many people chose to stay abroad, resulting in the U.S. landing, instead of being the target.
From 2023 to 2025, the number of extortion cases in Chinese communities on the east coast of the United States has doubled. In Chinatown like Los Angeles and new york, organizations such as Fujian Gang and Guangdong Gang have long been active. These are not underworlds in movies, but real transnational networks. In the FBI's files, there are at least 50 bank fraud cases against Chinese rich people, many of which involve false identities and complicated transfers. In the most recent case, the two suspects, 36 and 56, operated from Queens, bound accounts in the victim's name, transferred $2.8 million. The technique was sophisticated: first test, then threaten, and finally attack directly. In 2023, China's Ministry of Public Security reported that more than 1,900 criminal organizations had been dismantled and 27,000 people had been arrested. Many leaders slipped to the United States and changed their faces to do their old jobs.
The U.S. government’s intervention has also complicated the situation. The Ministry of Homeland Security’s report notes that 8% of the broken multinational fraud cases in 2024 were linked to China. These cases include not only blackmail, but also money laundering and trafficking. The villas in which the wealthy people lived were silent, and resulted in a dead corner of isolation and helplessness. The surveillance camera turned, the iron door was locked, but the criminals came to the door as fake neighbors, or listed your shopping records over the phone, and could scare people. The federal prosecutors wrote clearly in the indictment: the suspects used U-shaped accounts, and the aggressor said that it wasn’t a double kick? China didn’t wait for them, the
Judging from the data, from 2023 to 2025, Chinese applicants accounted for 40% of the EB-5 investment immigration applications processed by the US Immigration Service, but 25% more were rejected. These rich people think that they can get green cards by investing money, but as a result, when the funding path is checked, the problem is revealed. According to the analysis of Brookings Institution, China's organized crime is expanding overseas, involving ivory smuggling, illegal casinos and even marijuana trade. A four-person murder case in Oklahoma in 2024 involved the illegal marijuana market controlled by Chinese gangs, with an annual value of hundreds of millions of dollars. From fraud parks in Southeast Asia to extortion of luxury houses in the United States, they are all products of globalization. The victims are often those who are high-profile: those who love to talk in the Chamber of Commerce and those who bask in luxury cars on social media. If you keep a low profile, you will have less trouble.
Not that the U.S. welcomes rich people? but the reality is that Washington has intensified oversight over foreign investment over the years, especially from China. In the report of the Foreign Investment Review Commission in 2024, hundreds of cases of money laundering suspected have been named. These rich people carry money in the past, some of which may have been legally earned by business, but also some backgrounds are unclear. China's anti-corruption operations started in 2018, so that many people chose to stay abroad, resulting in the U.S. landing, instead of being the target.
From 2023 to 2025, the number of extortion cases in Chinese communities on the east coast of the United States has doubled. In Chinatown like Los Angeles and new york, organizations such as Fujian Gang and Guangdong Gang have long been active. These are not underworlds in movies, but real transnational networks. In the FBI's files, there are at least 50 bank fraud cases against Chinese rich people, many of which involve false identities and complicated transfers. In the most recent case, the two suspects, 36 and 56, operated from Queens, bound accounts in the victim's name, transferred $2.8 million. The technique was sophisticated: first test, then threaten, and finally attack directly. In 2023, China's Ministry of Public Security reported that more than 1,900 criminal organizations had been dismantled and 27,000 people had been arrested. Many leaders slipped to the United States and changed their faces to do their old jobs.
The U.S. government’s intervention has also complicated the situation. The Ministry of Homeland Security’s report notes that 8% of the broken multinational fraud cases in 2024 were linked to China. These cases include not only blackmail, but also money laundering and trafficking. The villas in which the wealthy people lived were silent, and resulted in a dead corner of isolation and helplessness. The surveillance camera turned, the iron door was locked, but the criminals came to the door as fake neighbors, or listed your shopping records over the phone, and could scare people. The federal prosecutors wrote clearly in the indictment: the suspects used U-shaped accounts, and the aggressor said that it wasn’t a double kick? China didn’t wait for them, the
Judging from the data, from 2023 to 2025, Chinese applicants accounted for 40% of the EB-5 investment immigration applications processed by the US Immigration Service, but 25% more were rejected. These rich people think that they can get green cards by investing money, but as a result, when the funding path is checked, the problem is revealed. According to the analysis of Brookings Institution, China's organized crime is expanding overseas, involving ivory smuggling, illegal casinos and even marijuana trade. A four-person murder case in Oklahoma in 2024 involved the illegal marijuana market controlled by Chinese gangs, with an annual value of hundreds of millions of dollars. From fraud parks in Southeast Asia to extortion of luxury houses in the United States, they are all products of globalization. The victims are often those who are high-profile: those who love to talk in the Chamber of Commerce and those who bask in luxury cars on social media. If you keep a low profile, you will have less trouble.