National pride sends Chinese team abroad for artwork – Arts & Entertainment

www.stltoday.com — A few weeks ago, with much fanfare, it was announced China was sending a team of treasure hunters to the US -with a TV crew in tow- to look for illicit artwork stolen from China throughout the years. China Daily ran the article for several days. Welp, the gang is all done in the US and they've returned with a whole lot of... nothing. Possibly, they didn't even really expect to find anything.

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