I hate when they put the word Mafia with any other ethnic groups, just say Chinese Triads or Chinese organized crime lol.
the traditional Triads from Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan are not present in Italy, "mafia" is a generic term for all form of organized crime or at least in Italy the ones charged with mafia-type association crime
Yes some times they now also talk about a mafia state, a state system where the government is tied with organized crime to the degree when government officials, the police, and/or military became a part of the criminal enterprise. According to US diplomats, the expression "mafia state" was coined by Alexander Litvinenko.
