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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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