The U.S. and China are trying to figure out how to handle antiquity repatriations.
The bronze horse head donated to China by Stanley Ho, on display in the Old Summer Palace, 160 years after it was stolen in Beijing, China, 25 February 2021. Credit: Imaginechina via AP Images
In the age of aggressive ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy, warm words from Chinese officials about the U.S. are a rarity. Yet Huang Ping, China’s consul general in New York, was unusually effusive after hosting a ceremony last month to celebrate the return of two 7th-century stone carvings to his country, writing on Twitter that the move would “bring positive energy into China-US relations.”
Whether the return of the carvings depicting Zoroastrian demons — that had been on loan to the Met
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