around POGOs industry<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cChina hasn\u2019t liked gambling, even its own regulated gambling, for some time and we\u2019ve seen that with the sheer number of unregulated, land-based gambling operations China has disrupted across Asia, which has seen thousands of people arrested and hundreds of millions of dollars seized\u201d, Leyland added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a huge channel shift in Asian markets away from land-based points of payment to direct online. The Chinese government has noticed that, doesn\u2019t like it and is already putting a huge amount of pressure on the Philippines. This is a level of pressure that China can exert pretty much globally and if you asked any politician anywhere in the world what do you like more, online gambling or China, it\u2019s a really easy choice for them to make\u201d, continued during his speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo we think that geopolitical tension around China is going to keep bubbling up and will have some really interesting implications for the industry that we probably haven\u2019t properly thought through yet\u201d, concluded.
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