joining me now is professor quentin parker from the university of hong kong welcome professor now china has a dedicated agency whose job is to retrieve lost art what is its reach like and how effective is it. 1st of all i'd like to say that every nation whose cultural heritage has been plundered he serves the opportunity to repatriate and looted artifacts including objects are not works and perhaps know no more so than china now the fact that china has established such an agency gives it a greater reach if it's adequately resourced to be given sufficient government resources then of course china has the capacity to trawl through all the available options are going on around the world looking for objects of chinese cultural heritage value that may not have adequate provenance so they don't have adequate providence that's an indication that perhaps these objects have been acquired in nonstandard way perhaps even illegally with such an agency. to investigate this in the tower and also start to exert pressure a nation state like china has the ability to exert quite a lot of soft power to ma