The Axis of Organised Crime – China, Iran, North Korea, Russia: State Sponsored Organised Crime and its Global Expansion

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The visit by President Vladimir Putin of Russia to North Korea recently has highlighted the increasingly dangerous cooperation between authoritarian states. In 2023, US writers Waller R. Newell and Clifford D. May termed this an “Axis of Tyrannies”, referring to growing multifaceted links between China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia as these countries i…