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To: TobagoJack who wrote (148238)	5/2/2019 8:26:08 AM
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Another daughter of China faces substantial jail time... Chinese 'Ivory Queen' Yang Fenglan jailed in Tanzania bbc.com 19 February 2019 Tanzania has sentenced Yang Fenglan, a Chinese businesswoman nicknamed the "Ivory Queen", to 15 years in jail for smuggling hundreds of elephant tusks. Yang was accused of operating one of Africa's biggest ivory-smuggling rings, responsible for smuggling $2.5m (£1.9m) worth of tusks from some 400 elephants. Two Tanzanian men were also found guilty of involvement in the ring. Ivory poaching is said to have caused a 20% decline in the population of African elephants in the last decade. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a global environmental body, says the population of African elephants has fallen to 415,000 - a drop of 110,000 over the last 10 years - as a result of poaching. The illicit trade is fuelled by demand from China and east Asia, where ivory is used to make jewellery and ornaments. Yang was convicted on charges relating to the smuggling of around 800 pieces of ivory between 2000 and 2014 from Tanzania to the Far East. The Tanzanian men were also jailed for 15 years on similar charges. The court in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's main city, has ordered Yang's property to be repossessed. She had been under investigation for more than a year when she was arrested in 2015, following a high-speed car chase. At the time of her arrest, Yang was a prominent businesswoman, operating a Chinese restaurant as well as an investment company in Dar es Salaam. Fluent in Swahili, she had lived and worked in Tanzania since the 1970s, and had served as vice-president of the China-Africa Business Council of Tanzania. Environmental campaigners welcomed the arrest because she was seen as playing a pivotal role in the illegal ivory trade. Most arrests tend to involve minor players.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (148238)	5/2/2019 10:00:46 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218705

When push comes to shove, USA has Canada as a pet dog and China has North Korea as a pet pit bull dog. In a dog eat dog and human eat dog approach to life people like Warmbier run into trouble. If Taiwan or Quebec or North Korea or Scotland or England or New Zealand or India or Hong Kong wish to be independent of centralized kleptocratic authoritarians it's interesting how the central planning bosses behave in each case. It seems better to be Canadian than North Korean. The Huawei lady is not in a cage and is in good health whereas Warmbier was sent back dead as seems likely with the Canadian in a cage in China. Scott Adams advocates execution of fentanyl criminal suppliers. His stepson was one of the tens of thousands dead from the fashion to poison one's brain with illegal chemicals. Japan used to own Taiwan in the 19th century. Who owns whom is an interesting question. The process of coming to own us interesting too. One can go shopping as USA did for slaves from Africa, buying territory in Louisiana and Alaska, or just be big and tough and take over as in Hawaii, Texas, California, Tibet, Taiwan, and the Mongolian marauding, or by trade and arms supply to competing local yokels as in New Zealand. As Japan and Germany found, conquest can lead to resistance on a grand scale. But it has also been successful for millions of years. Mqurice