Smuggling Flows in the Hong Kong-China-Taiwan Triangle.

The political conditions in the Hong Kong-China-Taiwan Triangle, where three adjacent entities are united by common language and culture, but separated by different, sometimes mutually hostile, political and customs jurisdictions, creates a situation that encourages smuggling along certain routes, and decreases the security of the entities within the Triangle, particularly Taiwan. The Triangle is also unusual inasmuch as there is some evidence that the political geographic conditions encourage illicit flows to other countries in the region, and further afield, leading to the peculiar situation where poorer countries are suffering spillover effects from relatively rich, relatively peaceful countries. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]