Overview

• The embassy’s May 25 advisory urges Chinese nationals to avoid informal matchmaking networks, commercial brokers and online cross-border dating content.
• China’s former one-child policy and cultural son preference have created roughly 30 million ‘leftover men’ unable to find spouses domestically.
• Investigations show Bangladeshi women are lured by false promises of marriage, jobs or education and then forced into marriages or prostitution in China.
• Under Bangladesh’s Anti-Human Trafficking Act, organisers of illicit cross-border marriages face seven years to life imprisonment or the death penalty.
• Victims of romance or marriage scams are told to report incidents to China’s public security authorities as Bangladeshi legal proceedings often stretch for months or years.