日中関係

ネットでニュースをくくれば、いくらでも中国人売春婦の逮捕のニュースが出てくる。
これは、売春婦の斡旋の話だが。
犯人のピンインの名前から、すぐに中国人だということがわかる。
まさかこれらも、強制連行された売春婦だというわけでもあるまいし。

毎日世界中のどこかで、中国人売春婦の事件が起きている。
いつの世も、売春婦と泥棒を志願する中国人は（中国人全部ではない）、後を絶たない
世界にますます開かれる、中国人売春婦の幕？

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Note that the headline doesn’t mean to say “managed by the P.R.C.” but “managed by a bunch of people with pinyin-spelled Chinese names.”

When China’s president, Hu Jintao, visited Seattle earlier this year, much ado was made over the fact that Seattle was a good place for Chinese interests do to business.

Apparently not just shoe importers and iPod retailers were thinking so.

Today, police in Seattle arrested seven people on charges of running a prostitution ring that “imported” young women from Asia?China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and Laos?after each young woman may have been expected to pay upwards of $50,000 as an “import fee,” which they were indentured to pay back. Two more in the ring were arrested in Los Angeles.

Oh yeah: and by “imported,” we mean in shipping containers.

The names of seven of those arrested suggest persons most likely (but yes, not necessarily) from Mainland China because of their pinyin spelling (i.e. not from Hong Kong or Taiwan):

Yong Jun Kang, 36, the apparent ringleader?looks like a Korean name, if I’m not mistaken
Zhenhua Liu, 51
Penquan Xie, 48
Zhen Qu, 49
Lianchen Ning, 47
Rujng Jiang, 36, and her husband, Keshing Zhu, 38
Bing Wang, manager at Liu’s brothel
Thongyot Liamurai, 39, a prostitute for both Kang and Zhu and a close confident of Kang’s?a Thai name, I’m guessing