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Relooted: an Africanfuturist heist game where you reclaim real African looted artifacts from Western museums.
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There's a conspiracy theory (I believe sort of) that a series of international art heists of the mid 2010s were banked rolled by the PRC to return Chinese artifacts taken during the century of humiliation.
Libs and chuds thinks it portrays the PRC as sinister and secretive not based AF which it would be if true.
I tend to think the professional robbers know that representatives from PRC will buy them and store them for the future, but not that they're actively commissioning the heists.
I choose to believe Xi Jinping personally cut a glass roofpane with a comically large diamond, was lowered into a minefield of lasers to perform outrageous gymnastic moves, and swapped a jade antique with a bag of mahjong tiles to trick pressure plates, all before silently escaping and flying back to China in a waiting J-36.
I wonder if that could be wealthy Chinese people wanting an artifact for their private collections?
this article basically claims that https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-chinese-art-heist
I've heard this and I want a mission: impossible style movie about it so bad.