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Wang Yi: China will keep a firm hand on telecom fraud

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A bus carrying suspected scam center workers from China, returning from Myanmar-based scam centers, arrives at the tarmac at Mae Sot Airport in Mae Sot, Thailand on February 21, 2025. /VCG

A bus carrying suspected scam center workers from China, returning from Myanmar-based scam centers, arrives at the tarmac at Mae Sot Airport in Mae Sot, Thailand on February 21, 2025. /VCG

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that online gambling and telecom fraud are matters of grave concern to the people, hence an issue that China must keep a firm hand on.

China's mission is to cut off the manipulating hands grasping at the people, and to remove the malignancy of telecom fraud, said Wang at a press conference on Friday on the sidelines of the third session of the 14th National People's Congress.

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