Chinese officials 'went on illegal ivory buying sprees'

[kyle Chiang]

Does this law only apply within PRC territory or does it apply to all PRC citizens everywhere around the world?

If he bring the smuggled ivory into Chinese territory,the law comes into force.And the Chinese pane or boat belong to Chinese territory.
Chinese law is made and used to everyone.But it has a little more difficulty to carry out in a officer.If you have solid evidence,it;'s no problem.As you known,even the top general,Xu Caihou who take bribes,will be arrested.

surprise that they use Xi's plane to bypass customs check for ivory transport.

Don't surprise firstly.Solid evidence should be offered firstly.Or it's a defamation and the party could prosecute for his smearing words.

 

[BoQ77]

China has no CNN a like.

 

[TaiShang]

China has no CNN a like.

Good. Then you should have one.

 

[kyle Chiang]

China has no CNN a like.

If you have spare time to laugh at China,plz to work hard and develop your country.

I heard Viets men enjoy staying at home and let their women to work，it's really true?

 

[BoQ77]

If you have spare time to laugh at China,plz to work hard and develop your country.

I heard Viets men enjoy staying at home and let their women to work，it's really true?

Laugh at officials who buy ivory, and bring home under diplomat policy = laugh at China?

 

[Soryu]

LOL. This will now put our China-hater poster into defence.

When you catch these people by their *****, just squeeze them further.

Affluent Vietnamese driving rhino horn poaching in South Africa, report warns

Make new thread and give more fun, do you !?
China hater !? Ah-ha ...hahaha.

 

[kyle Chiang]

Laugh at officials who buy ivory, and bring home under diplomat policy = laugh at China?

If no evidence,it's indeed smearing to our Chinese.
If EIA has evidence,we will support its allege firmly.
Does Vietnam has law?Can you smear a person as you want?

 

[powastick]

If no evidence,it's indeed smearing to our Chinese.

Yep, freedom of press and speech does not meant credibility. US news usually isn't credible unless they can get sued.

 

[bolo]

If you have spare time to laugh at China,plz to work hard and develop your country.

I heard Viets men enjoy staying at home and let their women to work，it's really true?

True. Seen it first hand. Men will pimp their women.

 

[Aepsilons]

Whoever the perpetrators are, I hope they are punished expeditiously and to the fullest extent of the law.

 

[hello68]

This is fake new report.

November 07, 2014 3:36 PM

Tanzania's government is denying allegations in a new report that officials traveling with China's president last year illegally purchased thousands of kilograms of ivory in the East African nation.

China has also denied the allegations, made this week by a British nongovernmental group, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

Tanzanian government spokesman Assah Mwambene told VOA's Swahili Service on Friday that the EIA had a sinister motive in releasing the report.

"I believe [EIA] has a secret agenda regarding the relations between Tanzania and China," Mwambene said. "Three-quarters of those involved in this illegal trade are not Chinese as purported in the report."

He also questioned the timing of the report, saying that relations between Tanzania and China were good and noting that the presidents of the two nations had recently visited each other's country.

"Why is this report being released now, when we have just had what we call a reciprocal visit after Chinese president’s last visit to Tanzania and the recent visit by Tanzania’s president to China?" Mwambene said.

In Beijing on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said that the charges were "groundless" and that his government strongly objected to the report.

The EIA said Thursday that members of Chinese President Xi Jinping's official party illegally purchased a large quantity of elephant tusks during a visit to Tanzania in March 2013. It said the officials smuggled the ivory out of the East African nation aboard the presidential airliner.

The environmental group's account quoted ivory smugglers in Dar es Salaam who said the volume of Chinese purchases doubled the price of ivory on the local black market.

China is the world's largest market for smuggled ivory. The material is seen as a status symbol and used both for decorative objects and in traditional Chinese medicine.

Environmental activists say the demand for illegal ivory from Asia has encouraged widespread poaching in Africa, devastating Tanzania's elephant population.

International ivory sales were banned in the 1980s in an effort to protect elephants. Tens of thousands of elephants are killed by poachers each year for their tusks.

From Voice of America

 

[powastick]

This is fake new report.

November 07, 2014 3:36 PM

Tanzania's government is denying allegations in a new report that officials traveling with China's president last year illegally purchased thousands of kilograms of ivory in the East African nation.

China has also denied the allegations, made this week by a British nongovernmental group, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

Tanzanian government spokesman Assah Mwambene told VOA's Swahili Service on Friday that the EIA had a sinister motive in releasing the report.

"I believe [EIA] has a secret agenda regarding the relations between Tanzania and China," Mwambene said. "Three-quarters of those involved in this illegal trade are not Chinese as purported in the report."

He also questioned the timing of the report, saying that relations between Tanzania and China were good and noting that the presidents of the two nations had recently visited each other's country.

"Why is this report being released now, when we have just had what we call a reciprocal visit after Chinese president’s last visit to Tanzania and the recent visit by Tanzania’s president to China?" Mwambene said.

In Beijing on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said that the charges were "groundless" and that his government strongly objected to the report.

The EIA said Thursday that members of Chinese President Xi Jinping's official party illegally purchased a large quantity of elephant tusks during a visit to Tanzania in March 2013. It said the officials smuggled the ivory out of the East African nation aboard the presidential airliner.

The environmental group's account quoted ivory smugglers in Dar es Salaam who said the volume of Chinese purchases doubled the price of ivory on the local black market.

China is the world's largest market for smuggled ivory. The material is seen as a status symbol and used both for decorative objects and in traditional Chinese medicine.

Environmental activists say the demand for illegal ivory from Asia has encouraged widespread poaching in Africa, devastating Tanzania's elephant population.

International ivory sales were banned in the 1980s in an effort to protect elephants. Tens of thousands of elephants are killed by poachers each year for their tusks.

From Voice of America

Damage has been done. Americans now playing dumb. Perception changed and they are unaccountable for anything.