Your source is Zhihu? That's even less trustworthy than your posts.
The government exported some duplicate relics and other artifacts which weren't deemed very high cultural value to earn foreign exchange. This is totally different than artifacts like that buddha, don't muddy the water. Next time please try harder before smearing China here.
I just want to explain the consequences of the serious neglect of cultural relics protection in the past for a long time. Although it was clearly stipulated that only low-value cultural relics were allowed to be exported, Shen Congwen（沈从文） still intercepted a batch of high-grade silk fabrics from the customs.
For a long time, the management of the Palace Museum was not as strict as you thought.For example, the cotton in the armor of the Qing Dynasty was taken out and distributed to the employees, and some fragments that were "considered unimportant" were also distributed to the employees.
That is the most important national museum.You can see how careless people were about the importance of cultural relics in the past.
"have no choice"，this article says.Sence the policy is loosened, many things that you can't imagine will happen.
The smuggled buddha statues have nothing to do with these things.But it shows the severity of the loss of cultural relics in the past.Once the government has shown a careless and conniving attitude, then the private crime of cultural relics smuggling is bound to be very rampant.
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