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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 9537302, member: 78949&quot;]Komo, I can&#039;t agree more!!! What bothers me though, is that it seems to be an endless pattern of the human kind. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> The moment one nation gets power and means, it starts oppressing others. And until it is badly (and deadly) beaten, it does not stop <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the other trait - it seems to me that the difference between the interest towards national treasures abroad of China and Japan is rooted not that much in their economic situation (Japan has a mighty economy, comparable with China) but in the same imperial thinking. What I mean - China was an empire but&nbsp; it was badly beaten throughout 20th century, to a large extent by its own forces (communism, Mao and his deeds) but now thanks to the greed and shortsighted actions of the capitalist world, it is a rising empire with all its aspects. One of which is heavy internal propaganda about selfsuperiority and entitlement. And antiques play big part in it, they are broght from abroad, gathered in national museums and shown to the people as justification of imperial pretences - &quot;look what we have produced, we are the chosen&quot;. Omitting the obvious, that many other nations have produced equally beautiful things. It is a national governmental policy of China, same with Russia but they are not so rich now and have huge spendings for the aggression. Russians have law forbiding export of all atrefacts made before 1917, and for some after that - constructivists&#039; works, for example. I don&#039;t know how about China but suspect something similar.</p><p>And it is dangerous. While Japan has been healed from such ambitions for long time after WWII.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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