{"id":151503,"date":"2026-05-17T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151503"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:00:12","slug":"as-france-passes-law-on-returning-loot-should-china-pop-the-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151503","title":{"rendered":"As France passes law on returning loot, should China pop the champagne?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn November 1861, during his self-imposed political exile, French writer Victor Hugo penned a blistering condemnation of his country.<br \/>\nThe author of Les Mis\u00e9rables described two \u201cbandits\u201d \u2013 France and Britain \u2013 who had attacked the Old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan, in Beijing the previous year. \u201cOne plundered, the other burned.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAll the treasures of all our cathedrals put together could not equal this formidable and splendid museum of the Orient,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe French empire has pocketed half&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3353871\/france-passes-law-returning-loot-should-china-pop-champagne?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn November 1861, during his self-imposed political exile, French writer Victor Hugo penned a blistering condemnation of his country. The author of Les Mis\u00e9rables&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}