>>4534
>Unnecessary
It's not like the Chinese gov is going to bomb Cambodia because there's a popular female streamer being sold as a prostitute unwillingly. Their response is "We asked the Cambodian gov and they said they can't help". Cambodia is state with little government (ancap almost) and buying child sex slaves is a thing there.
Plus these schemes generally target the peasant / noveau-rich without brains. Did you really think they're going to pay you 5x the median wage and have you work 3 days a week in Cambodia? Some other scheme that was recent is they kidnap a friend of yours, get you to meet the friend in China, and you get vanned and sold because the China-Burma/Thailand border is so porus nobody will notice. In that area the cartels outgun the cops and the army at times. There's also limited goverment control, and what "government" there is on the same side as the crime orgs.
Plus, the kidnappers are Chinese, the ringleader is Chinese and is probably a higher up (former) CPC functionary, and if you talk about it on social media and highlight her case they won't outright censor you now, they just note that it was "foreign disinformation". If you get to be a really big thorn they just wack you silently since social media in China requires your phone number, State issued ID, and facial recognition to work. Think of it as CIA shipping crack to the US, or if Epstein was a plant by the CIA to influence congress.
The new law (roughly translated to) "National guidelines on protections of personal information and privacy in internet transactions" is like PATRIOT and does the exact opposite. It requires for online commerce to verify your ID and phone number to an account to combat cyber crime and identity theft, and requires facial rec to purchase from anything electronic connected like a vending machine. You can get denied from purchasing bottled water by the machine if your credit is too low. It's very easy to figure out where are now with that data if you can obtain it illegally. And like anything, there's always a price to sell.
Foreigners don't require facial recognition but that's just a soft block onto them from keeping you from stuff they don't want you to buy. It's not like you're going to escape the skynet system in China outside of maybe Manchruia or remote ass Qinghai, even then if you show up to a village they'll ping you.