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Some netizens who brushed short videos, it is estimated that they were scared and trembled by the story of Ga's waist in the past two days, and returned their tourist tickets to Southeast Asia overnight.
What exactly is going on?
After Thailand's male model restaurant exploded, a big V sent a video reminder to warn netizens that Thailand is very dangerous, and the male model restaurant is not a women's check-in mecca, just to attract women to Thailand, and then abduct them into telecom fraud companies.
Some bloggers have also begun to break the news about some dangerous encounters in Thailand before; Some netizens found that some Internet celebrity bloggers suddenly did not update for a long time after traveling to Thailand, so netizens speculated whether they were in danger and controlled.
A large number of top Internet celebrities mysteriously disappeared in Thailand, what happened? Under the fermentation of the Internet, "Thailand Travel Security" once squeezed into the top three of today's hot search list.
Coupled with the disappearance of college students smuggled into northern Myanmar, it has also been widely spread recently, and Southeast Asia, as a popular tourist destination for Chinese tourists, has suddenly changed from a cost-effective tourist paradise to a hell of pig killing plates, organ trading, and wire fraud.
The worry of Chinese netizens even alarmed the top management in Thailand.
According to Thai media reports, on March 21, Thai Prime Minister Office spokesman Anucha revealed that the recent news spread on Chinese social media about "unsafe travel to Thailand" was untrue, and Prime Minister Prayuth ordered the Ministry of Tourism and Sports to clarify the situation at a cabinet meeting.
The story of Southeast Asia is becoming more and more fantastical and creepy.
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As the pandemic retreats and the country opens, many people start retaliatory tourism, and Southeast Asian countries have become popular destinations. However, these recent rumors on the Internet are expected to creep out those who want to travel.
Is Southeast Asia still safe? This in itself is a difficult question to answer concretely. Southeast Asia is a wide area and many countries, and even different regions within the same country have huge differences in the level of security.
Like northern Myanmar, this Golden Triangle is still in a situation of warlordism, and under the protection of local forces, local telecom fraud is notorious worldwide and has become a characteristic local industry.
A few days ago, four students from a vocational school in Hefei, Anhui Province, disappeared after smuggling to Myanmar, one of them was persuaded to return, and three returned safely after being searched. According to the latest reports, four more parents contacted the media to say that their four children disappeared after traveling to Myanmar together.
Because northern Myanmar borders Yunnan, many locals speak Chinese, large and small shops on the streets are Chinese signboards, and due to the convenience of geography and language, many wire fraud gangs in northern Myanmar target Chinese.
A few years ago, some media mentioned a data - there are more than 100,000 Chinese in northern Myanmar, mostly engaged in telecommunications fraud and related industries, and the targets of fraud are mainly Chinese.
Needless to say, how bloody and horrible this black industry is. Read a recent report, "Escapes from concentration camps in northern Burma: handcuffed keyboards, crying not to choke."
A few years ago, a meme circulated on the short video platform - "This is northern Myanmar, where I grew up, welcome to my world, delicate little princess".
This meme comes from the online novel "Wings Are Hard to Fly", many Internet celebrities use it to create, and some netizens are even confused, with romanticized and utopian imaginations of northern Myanmar.
They should be glad they didn't go, and the real northern Myanmar is actually far worse than they thought.
A popular saying in the past two days is that with the opening of the epidemic and the strengthening of domestic anti-fraud efforts, the vigilance of Chinese people in northern Myanmar has increased, and Thailand's tourism industry has developed rapidly, and industries such as electric fraud, pig killing plates, and human trafficking in northern Myanmar have begun to shift to Thailand.
In fact, including online gambling, similar underground gray industries have existed throughout Southeast Asia for a long time, and there is no problem of whether to transfer or not. Economic underdevelopment, coupled with corruption in local governments, may be a permissive attitude towards gray industries in some areas.
Where there is a gray industry, there must be crime.
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However, those netizens who are accustomed to the "sense of security of late-night skewers", do not think that the whole of Southeast Asia is a hell, every corner is a place outside the law, tourism is to give people's heads, and if you go, you have to quack.
Now many bloggers talk about this topic, to put it bluntly, they use it as a traffic password. Have you ever thought that some Internet celebrities just want to take the opportunity to engage in scripts and rub the heat, obviously there is nothing to do after going to Thailand, deliberately dragging self-directing and acting, so that netizens can reason and guess to increase fans?
The most magical thing is that there are Internet celebrities who went to Thailand to stop and send videos to report safety, but netizens turned into Sherlock Holmes, inferring from various details such as the expression and background of the speech that people were controlled and kidnapped. It's as if they're sorry for everyone if nothing happened.
The brain hole of netizens is admirable, but think about it, even if you really want to quack, who will find these influential Internet celebrities to start? Those gangs that engage in fraud and human trafficking will not be stupid enough to ask for trouble and increase the risk and difficulty of crime for themselves.
Countries like Thailand, despite the legalization of marijuana, also allow the legal possession of guns, and as tourist cities, the level of security, especially in the popular tourist cities, is not so bad that crime is everywhere.
It's not something to wash or not to wash. In fact, you can go to the Chinese Consular Service Network or the official website of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to see, the Chinese Consular Service Network introduces Thailand like this:
"The overall public security situation in Thailand is good, and the security situation is generally stable... Phuket, Phang Nga, Krabi, Surat Thani and Nakhon Khumn provinces attract a large number of Chinese tourists. The society is stable and the public security situation is better..."
Of course, it is also mentioned that "the security situation in the three provinces of Pattani, Yela and Taogong in the Thai-Malaysian border area is grim, and if there is no special need, you should avoid going to the above three provinces."
The official website of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism will also publish travel tips. However, there is no recent reminder to travel cautiously and not to Thailand for the time being. The "Embassy in Thailand Reminds Chinese Citizens of Travel Safety Precautions" released in February are just some daily travel reminders:
Including "do your homework before leaving", "abide by local laws, be cautious in carrying tobacco and alcohol", "pay attention to wading activities, traffic safety is in mind" and so on.
So, would you rather believe the official, or are you willing to believe some legends that have no basis in self-media?
Tourist destinations such as Thailand, unlike northern Myanmar, are not as good as large cities in China, but they are not necessarily some imaginary criminal paradises and purgatory on earth.
Not long ago, in order to welcome Chinese tourists, their Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health Anutin specially greeted Chinese tourists at the airport and sent Chinese New Year wishes with Chinese. This matter was also on the hot search at that time. Thailand's deputy prime minister said, "I didn't expect 490 million people to see this news."
A country whose tourism industry has been hit hard by the epidemic will not deliberately indulge in crimes against foreign tourists and make its international reputation stink.
In February this year, Hubei Enshi issued an "Emergency Notice on Personnel Born in Enshi City Not Traveling to Cambodia and Other Eight Countries unless necessary", which aroused widespread concern, and the local government also responded later, targeting key personnel involved in fraud, ordinary people will not be restricted from business trips, school, travel, etc.
I am not encouraging everyone to go to Thailand, to Southeast Asia, or even to northern Myanmar to risk "bicycles into motorcycles" with their own waist. Go abroad cautiously, strengthening security precautions is not a bad thing, 1% risk, if spread out on yourself is 100%.
Moreover, in terms of cost performance, the current Thailand is no longer the previous Thailand. Rising prices, cheating customers, traffic chaos, etc., similar travel complaints can be seen everywhere on the Internet.
I am only worried that the demonization of the people will become an obstacle to the friendship between the two countries, and that the topic of security in Southeast Asia will become more and more outrageous and degraded, and I am worried that it will become a kind of rich mine of traffic, and it will become a brainless curiosity.
Look at those mythical rumors on the Internet, what hundreds of thousands of people disappear in Thailand every year, what China bans drugs, so China is a high-quality waist... Just not too outrageous.