Two more zodiac sculptures surface

that are those "advanced, democretic counties" , stolen, no, robbed other people's treasure, then sell openly, no shame at all.
Yes it is not you who did that, it was your grandpa, wow, how proud you should be being grandsons of the robbers.
Just wonder why buying it. They distroied our culture, killed our people, and then sell our treasure for cash. Anyone who buying it is supporting, and justifing this robbery.

We must forget about how Han Wu Di invaded the west and kidnapped thousands of horses to strengthen his army. And we must also remember that what China did with impunity is not something anybody else is allowed to do. That's Chinese characteristics.

We must forget about how Han Wu Di invaded the west and kidnapped thousands of horses to strengthen his army.

it's good he was just for strengthen his army. he was.

but don't like some so call "advanced, democretic countries" was a robber. now it is still miatain a robber and killer each day. hu.

I do not know the details of the unfortunate looting of these items, and do not speak to defend them or looting armies of the past. Fortunately these sorts of activities do not occur in the present in modern "advanced, democretic [sic] counties".

The U.S. Army takes serious measures to see that these sorts of activities do not occur within our forces. As an active duty U.S. Army officer who has served two deployments in Iraq and one deployment in support of NATO in Kosovo, I have seen that fortunately these sort of activities are not tolerated and do not occur.

When a unit departs a foreign country, every piece of equipment is searched and the loading (and often unloading at home) of storage containers is supervised by a customs officer. Every bag of every soldier is also dumped out and inspected. These are time intensive procedures to ensure items like those in this article and other contraband are not smuggled out of a country.

Captain Robert E. Brewer
Student
Command and General Staff College
U.S. Army Combined Arms Center
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

“The views expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.”

"...Fortunately these sorts of activities do not occur in the present in modern "advanced, democretic [sic] counties..."

Well looks like a "good" thing. not taking anything from the country you IVADED. Nice people.
Actually you do this way because things changed. Now looting just draws flooding cristism which is too obviously stupid to lose the moral high land. And compared to what you aiming, capture of the whole country and the resouses, it is worth nothing. Wise choise.

Mr. robertebrewer: How do you explain the US troops incursion into Syria then?

If you could not prevent your own troops from striding across the border and killing civilans seemingly without 'superior approval', that says a lot about the top-bottom organisation of the US army. In that case I doubt the effectiveness of your preventative actions on looting.

On the other hand, if it is INDEED with superior approval, that also says quite a bit about US foreign policy regarding weaker countries, and how non-american civilian lives are viewed by the US army as 'secondary objectives' even in their own home.

A tip, Mr. Brewer: I don't think you should leave so much detail about yourself. Then you don't have to leave the ending sentence in, because we won't know you are related to the DoA, DoD or the US government.

@Robertebrewer

America is proud of our servicemen. They are professionals, not thugs. It is honor and country.

Captain Brewer! I agree with you that the US Army does make a decent effort not to misuse the extreme advantage an overwhelming military provides. But, as the saying goes, "With great power comes great responsibility!!" The US army does not take these measures for altruistic reasons, but for PR reasons. Winning the minds of your opponents and avoiding bad PR which can be used as propaganda against you is part of warfare!
On the other hand, to fully understand the indignation felt by the Chinese, imagine if The crown jewels of London, or the declaration of independence had been stolen and were suddenly put on auction in a Beijing art house for sale to the highest bidder! To be placed in a private collection somewhere in mainland China. Trust me, given the US's penchant for overreaction and unilateralism when it comes to things that threaten their "national security" (a codeword for national pride), I can almost imagine a CIA mission to recover the artifact.

[...] heads, which were looted from Beijing's Old Summer Palace in 1860. So far, China has recovered five of the heads. The whereabouts of another five remain [...]

In any case regarding the robbery of China's lost artifacts, the countries who have somehow claimed it should return it to those it belonged to with respect to that country. It is just a show of manner and courtesy towards that country, no matter what the circumstances were the situation now only matters, thus if it belonged to the Chinese it should be returned to the Chinese.