RUSI Journal, Aug 2013, Vol. 158, No. 4 By Emma De Angelis

In the last issue of the RUSI Journal, the thing series on transnational organised crime and security interested in a case study, gazing the challenge posed by drugscartels in Mexico and providing us with a compelling view on how organised crime can threaten the safety fabric of a single country. On this issue, Peng Wang takes an analogous in-depth method to a case study, with a minutely detailed assessment of the resurgence of Chinese organised crime during the last 20 years. His analysis breaks down this increasingly worrying phenomenon into three overlapping levels, scrutinising the activities of criminal organisations with mainland China, the cross-border criminal flows within the Greater China region and ethnic-Chinese organised crime within the UK. This three-level study captures the intricacies of the transnational, globalised nature of those groups’ structures and networks, providing an invaluable resource for those wishing to higher know how Chinese organised crime flourishes at home and overseas, and the way it is usually countered.

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