Wow...this news article really made me roll ...Fake lion and leopards in a Chinese zoo
From fake electronics to fake lions, museums; Chinese counterfeit industry has come a full circle - Economic Times
From fake electronics to fake lions, museums; Chinese counterfeit industry has come a full circle - Economic Times
From fake electronics to fake lions, museums; Chinese counterfeit industry has come a full circle
China Ahead in the Fake Stakes
So far we thought Chinese fakes were restricted to inanimate objects. Luxury brands and electronics companies had particular reason to lament the damage caused by the influx of inferior and often counterfeit merchandise manufactured by unscrupulous companies in China.
This April, a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said that China was the source of about 67% of counterfeit goods seized globally between 2008 and 2010
Now, it appears that the problem is far more widespread and brazen than ever suspected. The news of a Chinese zoo passing off a Tibetan mastiff (....this would have saddened the Dalai Lama ) as a lion even allowing for the fact that some local official with fake qualifications may have been misled by the canine's ferocious visage confirms that China has added a new dimension to the word copycat. However, the fake lion was not the only egregious substitution there was a fox in the leopard enclosure and another dog in the wolf pen.
Coming hard on the heels of the closure of a Chinese museum this July after nearly all its 40,000 antiquities were found to be knock-offs, it seems that from bogus banks and fake fashion goods to spurious eggs and counterfeit condoms, Chinese ingenuity knows no bounds. Besides paper, gunpowder and tea, it must now be investigated whether the first fakes were also invented in China.
China Ahead in the Fake Stakes
So far we thought Chinese fakes were restricted to inanimate objects. Luxury brands and electronics companies had particular reason to lament the damage caused by the influx of inferior and often counterfeit merchandise manufactured by unscrupulous companies in China.
This April, a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said that China was the source of about 67% of counterfeit goods seized globally between 2008 and 2010
Now, it appears that the problem is far more widespread and brazen than ever suspected. The news of a Chinese zoo passing off a Tibetan mastiff (....this would have saddened the Dalai Lama ) as a lion even allowing for the fact that some local official with fake qualifications may have been misled by the canine's ferocious visage confirms that China has added a new dimension to the word copycat. However, the fake lion was not the only egregious substitution there was a fox in the leopard enclosure and another dog in the wolf pen.
Coming hard on the heels of the closure of a Chinese museum this July after nearly all its 40,000 antiquities were found to be knock-offs, it seems that from bogus banks and fake fashion goods to spurious eggs and counterfeit condoms, Chinese ingenuity knows no bounds. Besides paper, gunpowder and tea, it must now be investigated whether the first fakes were also invented in China.
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