Jacob Sims on the Political Economy of Cybercrime in Southeast Asia
About this episode
Rorry Daniels interviews Jacob Sims about the political economy of cybercrime in Southeast Asia, focusing on the scam industry and human trafficking networks.
In this episode of Asia Inside Out, Rorry Daniels, Managing Director of the Asia Society Policy Institute, sits down with Jacob Sims, a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Asia Center and leading expert on transnational cybercrime in Southeast Asia. Together, they unpack the $64 billion a year scam industry run by criminal syndicates operating out of Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar, as well as the human trafficking networks that sustain these operations. Daniels and Sims explore what Ch...
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