{"id":35078,"date":"2022-11-03T14:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=35078"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:18:51","slug":"vietnam-and-china-reinforce-collaboration-against-cross-border-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-and-china-reinforce-collaboration-against-cross-border-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam and China reinforce collaboration against cross-border gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam has signed agreements with Chinese president Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Vietnam.- &nbsp;<strong>Nguyen Phu Trong<\/strong>, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam,&nbsp;has held a meeting with Chinese president <strong>Xi Jinping<\/strong>&nbsp;and closed a series of bilateral agreements. The agreements focus on deepening the countries&#8217; strategic cooperative partnership, including a commitment to<strong>&nbsp;address cross-border gambling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement also mentions cooperation in the fight against terrorism, &#8220;peaceful evolution&#8221;, drug crime, cybercrime, human trafficking, high-tech crime and immigration management. The two sides agreed to continue consolidating and enhancing legal and judicial cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese government has wagered a crackdown on cross-border gambling in recent years. In 2020, it established&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-continues-to-expand-gambling-blacklist\" target=\"_blank\">a blacklist of destinations<\/a>&nbsp;to which cross-border transfers are controlled. The&nbsp;<strong>blacklist<\/strong>&nbsp;is compiled by multiple departments, including the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security. In March 2021, China\u2019s revised Criminal Law made it illegal to assist cross-border gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/40-people-escape-from-cambodian-casino-to-vietnam\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">40 people escape from Cambodian casino to Vietnam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam has signed agreements with Chinese president Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":10260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Vietnam and China have formalized bilateral agreements to deepen their strategic cooperative partnership, explicitly committing to address cross-border gambling. This initiative aligns with China's ongoing stringent crackdown on illicit gambling activities, which includes a blacklist of destinations and the criminalization of assisting cross-border operations.","focusai_entities":"Nguyen Phu Trong, Xi Jinping, Communist Party of Vietnam, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Public Security","focusai_location":"Vietnam, China, Cambodia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Enforcement Mechanisms?","query":"What specific enforcement mechanisms and data-sharing protocols will Vietnam and China implement to combat cross-border gambling, and how will these impact licensed operators in neighboring jurisdictions?"},{"label":"Impact on Regional GGR?","query":"How will the intensified crackdown on cross-border gambling by China and Vietnam affect the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) of land-based and online operators in Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia and the Philippines?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-35078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35095,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35078\/revisions\/35095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}