What makes an emerging market depends on your perspective. For China’s criminal organisations mapping their overseas expansion, the attractions of Tuscany go beyond historic sites and nice wine.
In Prato, a city near Florence that has become a European hub for mass garment production, the Chinese quarter lies outside the medieval walls. Each evening it transforms from a neighbourhood of Chinese supermarkets, job centres and wedding agencies into a hive of bars, restaurants and mahjong parlours.
In one smoke-filled basement nightclub recently, plenty of wine (and prostitutes) were on display, but Chinese bouncers evicting a foreign reporter made clear that only Chinese were allowed entry.
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