Artnet

Are You Sitting Down? A Ming Dynasty Chair Just Sold for $16 Million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong—Nearly 10 Times Its Estimate

A centuries-old folding chair from China sold for a staggering $16 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong this past weekend—more than 10 times the chair’s low pre-sale estimate of $1.2 million. The piece, a ...
New Atlas

At $8.5 million, this could be the world’s most expensive camping chair

The world-record price for a camping chair more than doubled this week when Christie's Hong Kong sold a 17th Century Chinese Folding Horseshoe-Back Jiaoyi for HKD$65,975,000 (US$8,502,370), far ...
The Hill

GOP China panel chair: US should focus on winning competition not just ‘managing’ it

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chair of the House select committee on China, argued Thursday that President Biden should double down on opposing Chinese business competition instead of thawing ...