There are no Chinese Epstein Files because the entire East Asia/Southeast Asia was their playground (long post)

Throwaway account for reasons When the Epstein files came out, someone on twt said: WHAT IF THERE WAS A CHINESE EPSTEIN HUH? And the entire question was ludicrous to me, because they didn't need a special island with a special sailboat and special sex ring. It wouldn't happen because it didn't need to happen. The entire EA/SEA was their playground. And it wasn't just for billionaires, it was anyone with money I (middle-aged, F) grew up in a small southeast asian country with a very great and famous airport. Since primary school, I was told never to interact with passing tourists, especially german tourists, on the way to Thailand or Philippines because they were the real perverts. In school, I knew friends participated in "compensated dating", one of best friends L did this. She even tried to recruit me into it. Her pimp's name was Gideon. I never forgot what he said: "if you get a boyfriend you do this for free, at least you get paid for doing the same thing." I was 13 years old. He said if I sold my virginity it would be at least 2 Louis Vuitton bags. That's the kind of environment I grew up in. For the record, this was a good school, top rated in the country. I was an ordinary student, I was part of the school chess team, I played the piano, I did tuition for phys/chem. In public, no one talked about sex. Privately, it was all about transactions. The age of consent is 16, but if you were paid for it, who cares? Capitalism, baby! At 16-17, after finishing entrance exams, I took a job at a Special Economic Zone (SEZ-YRD) in mainland China. My boss was Malaysian, his name is Sam, he was the GM of the factory, the actual company was offshored. I worked in admin/HR as well as incoming/receiving of goods. (supply chain stuff). I was paid 7k a month which is crazy for a teenager btw. This was early 2000s, so there was a huge flood of migrant workers from rural/farming areas to these major cities. China was in the start of its manufacturing era, factories sprouting everywhere, people wanted to work. The factory had a policy of doing 10min interview/exams for hiring pu kong (普工）ordinary/unskilled labourers. It was my job to administer them, and this was also how Sam acquired his mistresses. His mistress was 14 years old. This was also how everyone else got their mistresses. Everyone from the production manager to the floor manager to the engineering head to the clean room manager, they all acquired their sidepieces through the DELUGE of labour flooding into the SEZ. If you didn't do it through applications, then there was always the job markets. The job market fairs is like some crazy alternate universe school fair with booths set up and people doing interviews ON THE SPOT in a chair. The atmosphere is like a market, except it's a meat marketing where people sold themselves like goods. You had people walking around with plaques around their necks: name, age, price per hour. You didn't need to traffic humans, they would sell themselves on the spot. After spending 3-4 months working with Sam, I flew back to the main office HQ and presented my findings --- that Sam was taking bribes (over 200k yuan), that he was abusing the HR program and trading sexual favours for a job, that he was basically a huge piece of shit The CEO said he already knew all this and it was fine. It was fine because Sam was very productive and it was hard to find good managers to work in China and if Sam could hit his 80% quota then this corruption was just part and parcel of doing business, you just add it to the cost. Here's the punchline: the CEO is my dad. I quit, and he also fired me. But not before telling me what a disappointment I was, and I was punished for "wasting time and being frivolous" over Sam's case which was considered "that is his private matter". I was scolded for letting my emotions colour my work, they were disappointed with me. because i thought he was a bad person and i wanted him fired and because i wanted sam fired, they said I was biased and inexperienced. My reputation was forever "the silly girl". I became the black sheep of my family and was constantly told how stupid and naive and gaslit into believing it. I got a scholarship into civil service, they said I didn't need it because I had the family business so I shouldn't "take it away from someone who needed it more." I applied to study in UK, and I was accepted into Central St Martins, but my mail was checked, and I never received the approval letter. It was only the dean who called my phone number then I realised what they did. By then, I was already enrolled in a different school. I managed to escape and in low-contact, but the whole Epstein thing is bringing back all these things I kept buried. Fuck, if my dad was OK with Sam having a 14 year old mistress, what else is he okay with? Did he do anything with it? How do you deal with knowing this?????? Everyone is suspect. My brother finished college and went back to work in SEZ because nepobaby money (100k starting salary!!) What did he pretend to not see???? I'm glad people realise this is wrong, or at least now I know it is wrong and I have the words to say it. All my life I blamed myself and how much I fucked up. People told me I was a fool for walking away from the business. People told me I should've just married whoever they asked me to. And the worst part??? I don't feel vindicated at all, just a horrible, horrible sadness. How do you reconcile your entire life with these people???? How do you look at the few happy memories, and think -- what else is in there? who is suffering?