Inside Asian Gaming

IAG AUG 2022年8月 亞博匯 46 COVER STORY vehicle for capital flight from China. Expatriation of billions of dollars in profits to the US via the American operators would also have been a bitter pill to swallow, and a pill which no doubt has become increasingly bitter as the animosity between the two world superpowers has grown in the past five to 10 years. These profits were generated on the back of the casino play of the people of mainland China – so the PRC perceives this as a form of wealth transfer from its shores to that of its geopolitical foe. China often cites “gambling- related crime” as a social evil, and no doubt resents the increase in problem gambling issues within the mainland’s borders, exported from Macau. There are a wide range of ways in which this antipathy to Macau’s casino gaming industry is being expressed – and in an increasingly overt fashion – by the mainland and, as a proxy, by the Macau government itself. The utter destruction of Macau’s 中國的富裕階層所利用，尤其是在 2010年前後，通過博彩中介，作為 資本從中國外逃的主要工具。而通過 美國營運商將數十億美元的利潤轉移 到美國，也同樣是一劑難以下嚥的苦 藥，並且毫無疑問，在過去五至十 年間，隨著兩個世界超級大國之間 敵意的增加，這顆藥丸愈發變得如 鯁在喉。這些利潤是由中國內地的 賭客所帶來的，因此中國將其視為 一種將財富從其境內轉移到其地緣 政治敵人那裏的形式。中國經常將 「與賭博相關的犯罪」視為社會毒 瘤，毫無疑問，對從澳門輸出到內地 的問題賭博等的增加頗為不滿。 Neighboring Hengqin could help solve the problem of Macau's limited hotel room supply. 毗鄰的橫琴深合區或許可以幫助解決澳門酒店客房供應有限的問題。