CX Daily: Ambiguous Reef Protection Laws Leave China’s Coral Sand Traders High and Dry

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In Depth: Ambiguous reef protection laws leave China’s coral sand traders high and dry

In December 2021, with the Covid-19 pandemic raging around the world, police arrived at a quarantine site in Binzhou, Shandong province, where Wu Xing was interned and abruptly took him away. They brought the small businessman, who has dealt in coral sand for almost a decade, to his company’s warehouse, where Wu was astonished to find the premises surrounded by a dozen police cars.