The Mysterious Chinese Art Heists Across Europe

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The Mysterious Chinese Art Heists Across Europe
Stockholm, Sweden. 2010. Passersby on the streets of the capital were confused and scared. Several cars in and around the vicinity had lit up in flames, and no one had any idea why. Police soon arrived on scene but they too were baffled with what they saw.
Now, several kilometers to the west, on the outskirts of the city, a small group of masked men made their way across the grounds of the Drottningholm Palace (the private residence of the Swedish Royal Family, as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site). Their target was the royal pavilion situated in the southern part of the complex, which displayed countless works of historic art.
Once there, the men forced their way in through the backdoors, and went right to work. They smashed the protective display cases, and grabbed whatever items they wanted. This immediately set off the alarm system, which alerted the Swedish police.
Now, despite the alarm, the robbers remained calm, because they knew exactly where the police were. The burning cars were in fact a distraction for them set up by the robbers, and they had fallen right into the trap. Still, the police raced towards the crime scene, but by the time they reached the royal pavilion, the place was empty (the robbers were in and out in less than six minutes).
Upon inspection, sculptures, chalices, plates and teapots - all invaluable items - were now missing from the permanent state collection of art and antiquities; and this wasn’t just a huge economic loss, but a cultural one as well.
It was later found out that after fleeing the pavilion on mopeds, the robbers made their way to a nearby lake where they were then picked up by a white speedboat. Though from this point, the trail went cold...

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[@kaigoatman6198]

... I don’t know what to say anyways so yeah

[@KentoBento]

@Tom-Tom Tom Thanks. After 47 takes...

[@emxrqlds646]

Yolo I’m Chinese I’m at Hong Kong yey

[@emxrqlds646]

I’m at Kowloon Cheratan Hotel

[@AliA-bh9kn]

69 likes

[@russelleustace2038]

“How much for the little cup with chickens on it?” *”$36,000,000”*

[@anthonywright8331]

SOLD

[@saechiru6750]

Tbf you can say the same thing with diamonds and Apple products

[@greenleaf8785]

I just saw that part while reading this comment

[@iamcringe.4343]

How much for this cup that took 10 mins to make Vegeta what's the price tell me now Vegetable *get owned Vegeta*: IT'S OVER 900,000,000,000,000,000,000

[@loudboyslive9112]

I’ll take it

[@PragnanSaha]

Hippity Hoppity Any heist related to Asia even remotely Is Kento Bento's property

[@user-od8vx2ei9g]

Harharhahaha good one

[@OF01975]

Cringes so hard i shit out my lower colon thinking it was a fart

[@id10cyy]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@disagust9619]

I want to say original but I’m not sure.

[@OF01975]

м σ м σ я ι η g if ur not sure then dont comment ffs like jesus christ you just contributed nothing to the human gene pool with that comment

[@supergalaxycosmo1120]

When your dog is litterally named "Looty" you know how much you love stealing

[@styendimpu3446]

Bruh😂

[@CyanGaming81]

Ayo 😂😂

[@ghostme5743]

Dang fam you got the whole chat laughing 😂😂😂

[@FERMYxPARADOX]

this comment has destroyed the British server😂😂

[@Notzara2008]

fr

[@evanyuan7379]

Jackie Chan actually made a movie based on these events called CZ12

[@nxyn9209]

Ah, Yes I See You’re A Cultured Man Also (if you don’t understand it’s because what i mean is he watches Jackie Chan movies so yeah)

[@jeffdabmoose]

Evan Yuan when I was a kid i whatched that movie everyday 2 times

[@rachitpatel4655]

Chinese zodiac I know.one of my fav movies

[@bruce2638]

@@rachitpatel4655 me too

[@svenandersen]

Finally someone mention this

[@druzzi9054]

Stealing the Thai crown could have just been “you know what, we steal only Chinese, it’s getting suspicious, let’s steal one Thai”

[@DoileeYT]

That or they believe Thailand is China, and is just one of their next target countries to imperialise

[@vinny9868]

Maybe they just took it thinking "Eh. Looks Asian. Good enough."

[@jadeshabaron4661]

@@vinny9868 , Hahahahahha

[@22espec]

That Thai crown is just a replica, it has value, but as much as you would think.

[@DavidMonreal1983]

Deruzzi what the heck is ur channel

[@pj2360]

Am i the only damn person in the world that didnt even know there was a second mona lisa

[@dknprobablydoesanything311]

Nope,I didn't even know too

[@vvx2953]

Me to

[@s0uls148]

i didnt know aswel XD

[@NurseOrysia1]

@@kkeomchizz ikr im dumbfounded

[@angelicacoupland8271]

Basically da vinci painted 3 at different times. He preferred the most famous one, now in France but the other two are in other countries.

[@thekilla1234]

I think my grandmother has at least 10 of those $36m chicken cups.

[@adilplays2312]

xD

[@cocopuffs8646]

Omg same

[@xPastor]

XD

[@kryrins]

Heist incoming.

[@theorange3842]

Can I come over, if a few cups go missing they didn't

[@OriginalDonutposse]

10:44 “how much is your company worth?” “140 billion.” “No, tell us how much in multiples of Luxembourg’s annual GDP.”

[@darkbrightnorth]

That’s also not good enough, tell else either how much toward the moon we can stack the money or how many football fields it can cover, all other measures are useless measures

[@yankymate2314]

How much does it weigh in terms of vw beetles

[@nhuthien198]

Finally an intelligent and expertly pulled out heists instead of the heisters spending it all on lottery tickets.

[@yeecksd9744]

I still laugh at that ‘heist’ whenever I remember it lol

[@carbitt]

I mean the first time the lottery ticket method worked if I remember correctly

[@blizzyyt2281]

LoliMaster 69 they probably would have gotten away with it if they quit while they were ahead

[@liongson9431]

lol that the most funny heist , but if about intellegent , Japanese heist is very great too , not like i praise heist act

[@cam0987]

Ikr🤣🤣🤣

[@baruchespinoza6703]

People should steal stuff more often so Kento Bento can make more videos like this

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

I'm torn on this lol

[@PlaystationProduction]

Baruch Espinoza lmao

[@sunitasingh3987]

Share ur address plz I'll be honoured

[@Kaxology]

Shh, I stole an eraser from my friend, that's worth a video!

[@depressedhamburger4880]

I stole a bag if sugar arrest me

[@kennywong4239]

To all those who are wondering why the chicken cup was so expensive, because they were produced exclusively for the Ming dynasty emperors in the mid 15th century using special kiln techniques. It has high failure rate and all the failed produce were just destroyed to avoid the techniques being known by outsiders. After 64 years in production, it was off production due to its high cost. Hence, there were only 4 cups could be found in the world today, and most are kept in museums or private collections.

[@veryveryverysadcat]

What is kiln?

[@jimmykrakorn7981]

@@veryveryverysadcat look it up

[@martijn3015]

@@veryveryverysadcat it's basically an overrated oven

[@Emira_75]

​@@veryveryverysadcat use fckn Google, why can't people think for themselves 🤷

[@leirsdeirs6212]

It do the same thing as the dollar store ones

[@miku8177]

If only teachers taught us like this.

[@content8432]

Nope they gotta be boring and gives us thousands of dumbass worksheets and write millions of notes

[@CoolioTops]

They get paid less, what do you expect?

[@HemletPlayz]

@@CoolioTops that is true

[@malachimejias1567]

She named her dog "Looty"! Yeah this is perfect

[@sakshamsehra5819]

T_T

[@theYoutubeHandle]

maybe it's a thai billionaire who likes Chinese art

[@Maxizio]

the robbers were obviously instructed to steal the Thai crown to throw off investigators

[@iamwritingrightnow8217]

maybe it‘s a western billionaire who likes asian art

[@saaraismail3400]

What if USA is starting to get western countries to hate China and team up with USA in world war 3...

[@furbees2662]

what if it's some Danes who likes Chinese art

[@99Kuromaru]

@I am writing right now that would be more animu girls art then :P

[@juliusquasar1565]

When “The Scream” by Edvard Munch was stolen, the thieves actually left a note saying “Thanks for the poor security!”

[@itzfrenchie9752]

C:

[@keyboardsmash2680]

Magpie UwU Ew

[@idellekhoo9459]

Damn

[@kkeomchizz]

The security system just got roasted.

[@iimaestro8361]

i love how polite that sounded

[@rishab6334]

*England loots precious Chinese artifacts *China loots them back England: *insert surprised Pikachu*

[@ArtjomKoslow]

Considering that CCP- China couldn´t care less about their cultural Heritage during the Cultural Devolution (in Fact the ROC/Taiwan was smart enough to take as many stuff with them as they could) it´s such a poor Move to just re-steal Stuff.

[@rudranarayan8762]

@@ArtjomKoslow child of looters

[@boimlol1500]

@l L STFU for real , England killed millions and stole billions

[@DeitySkullKid]

@@ReconCrusader I don't think "it's fine if we kill you because you guys are the best at killing others of your people" is a valid standpoint, lol As an american, living in a country that has done plenty of sh*t wrong, ya just gotta accept it's what happened, otherwise you're just being willfully ignorant to the tragedies of the past, and that's just awful.

[@ArjunSingh-fe6kq]

@@ArtjomKoslow china under Mao vs China today is very different lol. China’s becoming increasingly nationalistic which only means bringing glory to their past

[@wobber.]

“Looty not included” NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@nochannelaccess9461]

so sad ;n;

[@warcrimes390]

Man 1: hey what you doing? Man 2: oh nothing just sculpting a vase Man 1: lmao imagine if it went on auction hundreds of years later for 69.5 million dollars Man 2: lmao imagine

[@burn_out]

Man 3: Wait, what the fuck is a dollar?

[@oom_0923]

Man 4: why are we speaking English!?

[@charlottexue8023]

Man 5: 我不知道

[@hychen7890]

Don't underestimate these things. They are real works of art. Even in ancient times, they were collected and owned by the royal family. Some crafts were even lost, and the current technology can't make them. A vase in a commoner's house would not be so valuable

[@mistysudios9855]

Man 6: 我們說回中文吧 (Let’s speak Chinese again.)

[@terriblepubgplayer1576]

Every Kento Bento video ever* “But wait....there’s a twist”

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

Not a Kento Bento video without it.

[@synchro4452]

Terrible Pubg Player All of them also has a But this started (insert time) ago. In (insert month and year)...

[@r3ked272]

(7:52) "Look, mommy! I painted a cup!" "That's very nice, sweetie. Now go wash your clothes in the river." Many years later... "And the chicken cup has sold for $36,000,000!"

[@wjleaf2802]

Nope, those artworks stolen from old summer palace were used by royal families and created by the best craftsman in ancient time. Maybe overpriced in the auction but are all of very high aesthetics and artistic value.

[@crazydinosaur8945]

@@wjleaf2802 it was a joke i hope

[@Cbrmkn98xs]

@@crazydinosaur8945 should i r/woooosh him/her?

[@ThatoneUhh]

@@Cbrmkn98xs I think so.

[@tian.-.]

@@wjleaf2802 nope I’ll do it r/woooosh

[@thepumpkindude9060]

Robbery that happen in Asia: **exists** Kento Bento: I can milk you

[@junnrhillgailanan3429]

oh noe

[@junnrhillgailanan3429]

oh noe

[@junnrhillgailanan3429]

oh noe

[@ethan6727]

bro you make roblox content stfu tard

[@winterblox1]

@@ethan6727 who cares i play it too

[@jhsr4827]

A Pekingese dog named “Looty”, this is ironic!

[@99Kuromaru]

technically not ironic :P

[@deaddreams8479]

I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Batien]

Satiric

[@TheArchsage74]

Not ironic. Not an interesting comment. We all understood the connection.

[@jhsr4827]

TheArchsage74 Thanks for your comment and I’m very sorry for this boring comment that has wasted your time, sorry for the inconvenience, wish you a nice day!

[@yoSotic]

They think that’s impressive?! I’ve gotten my Nintendo DS from my parent’s room more then 5 times when I was 8

[@hughmungus6450]

That shit was the real heist. Trying new ways of sneaking to see which was most quite and that

[@sporkles7427]

Man, that's hardcore. I haven't even been able to do that once 😓

[@hahahehehoho9024]

legend

[@wang-wd9xp]

This is history just history

[@Koneko_Chan777]

SAME!! I'd take 30 mins just slowly crawling under their bed, trying not to wake them up, and then go back out with my grand prize XD

[@X-SPONGED]

To people actually believing that diamonds are worth $500.000 and that is a fair price, People : "I- I thought you were rare" Diamonds : "my rarity was greatly exaggerated"

[@user-lm5fd6rr5b]

I spent my entire childhood living in Beijing, 5km away from the ruins of the old Summer Palace. As crazed as China is with infrastructure and construction, the site of the Summer Palace, after the British and French soldiers burnt it to the ground 160 years ago, was never renovated. They left it that way. While modernisation brought skyscrapers and condo buildings all around the Palace, it stayed the way Britain and France left it. China remembers

[@iososop9169]

I remember seeing debate on whether they should rebuild it and eventually they decided to keep it in its ruined state as a reminder, to never let themselves forget what happens when you’re weak.

[@lordbendtner7021]

​@@iososop9169A good reminder of true Western values.

[@karjalatakaisin]

@@lordbendtner7021 torturing and murdering peace negotiators are true chinese values then?

[@TrollzBait]

​@Lord Bendtner meh, mao would have destroyed it anyway, so it didnt really matter

[@BennysGamingLounge]

Chinese history was systematically destroyed by the CCP during the "great leap forward" ancient history was apparently holding them back soooooooooooo there is something to be said for not making such a big deal about ANCIENT spoils of war it could genuinely be the only way the pieces survive.....

[@notatable4531]

Why he look like the other guy shiratori who escaped prison 4 times

[@jhopeschickennoodlesoup6237]

Yoshie Shiratori, that man's life story though...

[@wxrlord3768]

Shinatori?

[@davidstingl6217]

well what do you know, perhaps he's just doing what he's best in after leaving the prison life ;)

[@davidstingl6217]

@alex jaimes and that's exactly why he was able to steal from all these facilities ;) And it doesn't mean he can't steal for the Chinese, if they pay well haha

[@gravityfallsfan3680]

everybody in the show looks like shiratori

[@TheYamakasiize]

2 version of the Mona Lisa 1. Raw no edit 2. With Beautify

[@official_FoxGaming]

Yuz Khairi org Malaysia ke?

[@pasaymalibay3662]

made by China Phones

[@vinny9868]

#2 Looks like a very classic rennaisanse painting.

[@jacobstallard2678]

By beauty you mean makeup, lol

[@PilotExplorer]

The scary part, when you type “second” on KZbin search and “mona Lisa” pops up

[@HolasoyMai]

I just had to write "sec". They are watching us 😵 xd

[@valardohaeris333]

I just had to write "se"

[@xexpaguette]

*laughs in turning off all ad personalisation* *cries in horrible recommended*

[@lifePaultheball]

For me.2nd plane hit the trade center comes up 🙄

[@inactive6200]

it's because youtube takes what people search for after watching the video and puts it into the algorithm

[@aylinsayin2733]

Honestly I absolutely understand that they want their art and that no one should have stolen their art I'm not saying it's okay to steal but is it wrong to steal something that is already yours????

[@92_09]

It’s called conquering

[@isaactuberoso4443]

In Europe's defense, There comrades did just get brutally tortured and killed in the biggest violation of war by doing so to the European agents there on a treaty

[@theodoreneer4781]

its not like china didnt steal tons of things from all the lesser countries surrounding it, its the way of the world, big fish takes from the little fish, china was the big fish in asia back in the 1800s but the european powers were bigger

[@paulgeorge8084]

@@92_09 yes conquering. the imperialist and colonials valid excuse for murder, slavery, rape and robberies. i hope no one conquers your country btw LOL.

[@paulgeorge8084]

@@isaactuberoso4443 they got brutally murdered because china was angry about Europe's illegal selling of opium into their country, it's making their people crazy. example if a drug cartel sends a diplomatic and hoping that country would legalize cocaine to be sold to there country, i'm pretty sure the diplomat would tortured/ jailed as well. so sorry about murdering your diplomats. now let me hear your excuse aka Europe's defense on why Europe rob, slave, and looted Africa and india. were your diplomats got tortured thre as well? lmao

[@AmabossReally]

*Heist happened somewhere in Asia* Kento Bento: It’s free real estate

[@gramioerie_xi133]

Except this one didn't actually take place in China, mostly. Heh.

[@deaddreams8479]

@@gramioerie_xi133 it started in China

[@zucced2087]

Haha nice meme pal.

[@xquintessential]

@Computer Curry r/ihavereddit

[@ayamisdelicious3600]

@@deaddreams8479 r/whooooosh

[@joshuasoliz9068]

Wow a kento bento video I’m so lucky to see it early

[@_yuri]

same

[@SIRHEINZ]

ya

[@simulatedsky2580]

Me too

[@nadaotk]

True

[@abo7medd435]

same

[@windywendi]

As a Chinese national I am not supportive of these heists, but I do think of them as kind of "cool", that these people just came in and did their job without hurting or killing anyone. But I do think that these billionaires (or whoever funded the heist) has definitely seen too much importance in artifects instead of the livelihood of people.

[@irane-ron4268]

I mean they burned multiple cars to a crisp

[@kevinqi7992]

@@irane-ron4268i dunno, i’d take a few burned cars in return for a burned would-be wonder of the modern world most days of the year

[@irane-ron4268]

@kevinqi7992 but it's still bad and it was in a museum dosnt have to be the countrys

[@Maul505]

This is lowkey based, nobody was hurt and some art that was stolen by europeans was returned to asia

[@TheLiamster]

Chinese art heist doesn’t take place in China.

[@alexliu5806]

2:41

[@TheLiamster]

Alex Liu I know, I’ve seen the video. It was only a joke.

[@sakariaskarlsson634]

I mean do this in china and you can get executed, do this in europe and you get free all inclusive for 4 years with early parole after 2.. We have become too soft, back in the good old day you got to hang if you stole bread.. ;)

[@tanguanming3359]

Lol

[@cockatyusha2359]

@@sakariaskarlsson634 let's not jump into assumptions. They are not going to arbitrarily execute you people for stealing. Communist countries still have civilian laws.

[@jackchow4316]

Security cameras? Guards? Is it really that easy to steal those high profile arts???

[@recas2780]

This is pros we are talking about not your everyday robbers, maybe they are that good 🤔

[@phantomswordorpoo]

Wanna join

[@kanzai12]

They use the art of shu zhu~

[@sawc.ma.bals.]

@@kanzai12 what's shu zhu

[@shakmp4]

@@sawc.ma.bals. r/its.okay.non.otaku

[@khoile2417]

Imo countries should be allowed to take back stolen artifacts from wars no ? Seems like common courtesy to me

[@real_cooki3]

Apparently no world leaders want to talk about it today

[@wannabefoleyartist9635]

Lmao you should go to the British museum XD Almost nothing in there is even british

[@shannonluciano]

you think European colonialist wanna give back all the things in their museums nope it will be all empty if it weren't for their trophies

[@Marxist-Nixonist-Bidenist]

That's a lot of stuff that needs to be returned.

[@Kaasplankje69]

Can we, as Europe, then also return the millions of immigrants that came to our countries after their home countries got independence, because they didnt want to lose their European nationality? I’d call it a great deal to be very honest.

[@laserpanda9553]

It's incredible how such a similar heist happened in 2000 in sweden, they blew up cars to distract the police and got out in a speed boat after robbing the Swedish national museum

[@pr3ttyb0yfl4cko]

Kento Bento opens his phone Notification: *You received a new message Xi Jinping: Hi

[@salusalmu8795]

Kookies enkrem kento bento : dash lane???

[@Seff2]

Currently it's more like: Kaalaman: pleeeeease I am sooooory. Please forgive meeeeee

[@trashboy5940]

Plot twist: Xi liked his video

[@emperorpalpatine1286]

Hahahahaha 😂

[@sheloveskiraa]

*steals extremely expensive things' Me: meh *steals a dog* Me: *gun sounds*

[@bentrabentra]

Stimulants i like shut up

[@bruhmomentium9]

so i started blasting

[@du6e28]

sup bakugo

[@furioussherman7265]

John Wick: *Grabs a pencil*

[@stinkstink_]

Reason: It was probably my dog and I called the whole army for it •^•

[@harshitbaweja5594]

The moment I heard 'Chinese art only' I knew the intention, We Indians feel same that Europeans took away our arts, sculptures etc including the 'Kohinoor' diamond on British Monarch's crown.

[@cherri_tsuuuu]

Sorry to hear that. Unfortunately since the brits took over the world back then, our ancestors were in less power. If only theres a more respectable way to get them back

[@patrickwang9137]

@@cherri_tsuuuu Like what? Paying 100 million USD or more for what was forcefully taken from them in the past? Shame on these museums keeping the things for display as if it were theirs. What they should do is create replicas and return the original back to the rightful owners. That's respectful

[@Ocudavidimvideooo]

Yeah man, one would think they would feel at least SOME shame for all the thefts and return it 🙄

[@feldmarschallvonbraunschwe4463]

@@Ocudavidimvideooo we've returned some stuff but I doubt we'll return all of it.

[@Ocudavidimvideooo]

@@feldmarschallvonbraunschwe4463 Why doubt? Isn't it the right thing to do? If a single person shows they're grown up by owning up to their sh*t and correcting them, why not countries whose behaviour influences far more lives than a single person ever could?

[@opmentry6970]

I discovered your channel a couple of days ago and have been hooked! Keep up the good work.

[@mayasurbeck1772]

Ooo I love these kinds of videos plz make more

[@Young_buck2423]

Leave it at 69 likes PLEASE

[@kanzai12]

Wanna more of this video? Go to curiositystream.com/kentobento

[@sanaullahhassan1690]

Me to

[@JustinY.]

It's all fun and games until you track the stolen art to a high ranking official's personal art collection and then become *[REDACTED]* from history

[@ToastyDaEngi]

Not funny Didn't laugh

[@_yuri]

you ever get bored champ

[@joyphobic]

Notice me senpai!

[@SGT676]

@@_yuri I dont think he ever does

[@_yuri]

@@SGT676 i talked to him once on a discord he has some next level skills

[@Ruben-vy6iw]

This may sound wierd. But as a guy that’s from Bergen, Norway. I feel proud that they actually robbed this city

[@chwanttv]

w o a h

[@msb12]

Why

[@Ruben-vy6iw]

@@msb12 Idk, Norway isn't that big of a country and it just feels nice that something "History related" has happened in our country ^^, it would be another thing if people had been killed, then ofc i would have felt only hate or something like that. But since they managed to rob one of our museum of something that (imo) was their's in the first place without any1 getting killed or injured. i rly don't have anything against it ^^.

[@cherri_tsuuuu]

@@Ruben-vy6iw ur something interesting

[@nemo320]

yeah im happy they stole things these colonizers took from them in the past

[@aaravkurdikar1757]

plot twist: the robbers were part of a catering company

[@dumbhusk94]

Hah

[@baduploadschedule1015]

It’s all of Asia working in cooperation to get thier stuff back

[@roro-mm7cc]

you have to remember during Maos so called 'great leap forward' china ITSELF actually destroyed all their ancient relics, burned books, art and texts AND destroyed their palaces.. if the British hadn't taken these pieces of art they would actually be gone forever. ALL the other art/relics that were saved were taken by the Chinese nationalist party to Taiwan so it wouldn't be destroyed by Mao and the communist regime - in those times literally ALL art, music and film was destroyed and banned the only thing that was allowed was propaganda art/music..they completely annihilated their culture. its only now the communist party is changing its tune and instead of taking the blame for the lack of historical artifacts which was mainly their fault.. they like to blame it all on other countries errors done hundreds of years ago creating further division and hatred for the western world.

[@codyshi4743]

Roman 213, since when does ban music and film have to do with stuff being stolen from other people?

[@thiccllama53]

BadUploadScheduleツ I’m sorry butttttttt you spelled “their” wrong

[@jofor1916]

Europeans: *steals Chinese relics* *China bring out reverse uno card* : no you

[@therealdandypuff]

China: the sister Everyone else: the other sister China: I want my stuff back Everyone else: No China: *so you have chosen death*

[@hooman3576]

So, you are telling me we can just steal back kohinoor?

[@youraveragesub]

Europe: *steals Chinese artifacts from China* China: Okay, *my turn* Edit: Just like the opium wars, it's easy to start comment wars using memes.

[@RaroHi]

I guess it was payment for killing those making peace.

[@Kenchinito2207]

@@RaroHi I'd recommend you to read about the opium wars. Basically China wouldn't sell tea to England so they started illegaly selling drugs on China.

[@fatimamunir7809]

Europe: Pikachu face OoO

[@jameswolf3302]

payback time bitches

[@RaroHi]

@@Kenchinito2207 Which is messed up, but so is ONLY being able to buy tea with silver.

[@rosza636]

Bruh I'm not gonna lie these heist videos you make are literally a drug in the form of an informational video, keep up the great work u killin it out here!

[@adityapraveen9342]

(16th century) Asia: exists Europe: *hippity hoppity you are now my property*

[@benycanseco1070]

LOL

[@mroverdose1133]

Just to end up being the property of the US. Hippity hoppity back in the line, colonizer!

[@sieunyon876]

Asia: *i'm sick of this shit--*

[@theinfamoussenate8329]

@l L more like China: minding my own business over here. Britain: nice tea you got here, can I buy some? China: sure, just give me silver. Britain: ( hmm, too broke to buy) aight, take this drug instead. Good for health and longevity 😉 China: Nah Britain sticks a gun on China’s head: TAKE IT OR YOURE A DEAD MAN! I mean, if Britain didn’t force the Chinese to get hooked on drugs, none of this would have happened.

[@Luffy-ri2lp]

XD

[@HolttronandGalg]

i remember in Stockholm i was visiting my cousins and our rental cars was caught on fire on the side of the street. it was very scary as a young child.

[@Henry-bg4oe]

*Literally any heist in the eastern hemisphere* Kento Bento: It's free real estate

[@777vp]

"Overtime, many of these Chinese relics (*Looty not included*) made its way to museums across Europe." While watching that I laughed because if he didn't include that statement "(Looty not included)" it would've been so funny to see a dog from the 1860's in a MUSEUM.

[@imunderyourbed5979]

Init so lame

[@nej.1190]

There is actually historical pets that have been taxidermised and are in museums. It's quite weird.

[@lorenzo.t.674]

Royal family: “Hey! It took us a long time to steal all that stuff...”

[@altheamdv]

western: steals chinese antiques and artifacts china: imma pull out the biggest reverse uno card in the history of heist

[@triadwarfare]

Remember that the biggest heist was the one they did to themselves during the Cultural Revolution, where they destroyed artifacts of their own past to "reject their old ways" and push further into communism.

[@arborealmole8079]

@@triadwarfare dude that was a very smooth brain play when they did that

[@madsam0320]

@@triadwarfare rubbish, check out the imperial treasures in forbidden city, what is recovered from the British and French invasion into Beijing and the rest are taken to Taiwan by KMT.

[@jimmysmith8231]

@@madsam0320 An insignificant amount of artifacts versus the ones destroyed by their own government in their fervent desire to destroy what is old and many discovered after Mao’s purges of their history. I have spent months in China seeing buildings, temples and other historic monuments with: Built: xxxx Destroyed during the Cultural Revolution Rebuilt: Usually sometime in the 1990’s

[@madsam0320]

British museum, Victoria Albert museum and many of the manor houses are littered with artefacts looted from China and other ancient civilisations. So nice of us protecting these precious things from the natives, said the bandits.

[@Bluey]

I always see burning cars outside my window on July 14th. Yes, I live in France.

[@jensjensen9035]

Bluey yea we have really been enriched by the immigrants

[@gmgunnhildr2711]

jens jensen you do know the protests happening are not a result of immigrants, right?

[@jensjensen9035]

AnTi-Series I no but Maybe the immigrants in your area are good people who doesnt commit crime and works but thats NOT how they are Gere in Denmark

[@gmgunnhildr2711]

jens jensen shame, I have been to Denmark, beautiful place

[@Bluey]

@@jensjensen9035 hey look its mister potato-mouth

[@mayankrawat423]

China : steals their own artwork Indians (to government) : you gonna do anything?

[@Viiolatt]

हमारी सरकार chutiyo से भरी है There was a specific reason why I wrote this in hindi

[@thvstan9258]

@@Viiolatt that was smart

[@Viiolatt]

@@thvstan9258 lol thank u

[@farishpradhan5392]

Kohinoor

[@flyatnight-1812]

Arun Kumar your graduation system makes mine look like grade school :/

[@cerastesfansss4411]

Your videos are always so interesting. I got so much inspiration for the book I'm writing, thank you so much 😊💛.

[@trent3842]

His voice, his way of telling the story, his tone.. its all so perfect and satisfying to watch i was suppose to study but i watched every. Single. Video 10/10 underated

[@Kxy2x]

I dont get off to voices but yeah its a good video

[@joyphobic]

Title: This is The Greatest Art Heist in Chinese History Ancient Tomb Raiders: *Let us introduce ourselves*

[@lily4351]

hah is this a Daomubiji reference

[@joyphobic]

@@lily4351 ehmm,no but I'm curious to what that is?

[@lily4351]

@@joyphobic Ohhhhh there's an extremely famous novel series in China called Daomubiji (it's been translated as well). Nearly every youth in the country has read them. They're big on grave robbing culture, ancient artifacts and mythological creatures that were rumored to haunt ancient graves when coffins and tombsites are violated. It's amazing. Mayhaps one of the biggest fandoms in China today.

[@joyphobic]

@@lily4351 oh really? that's interesting, btw can u buy an english version or something?

[@lily4351]

@@joyphobic Did some digging around and here!: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B016QAIH16?ref_=series_rw_dp_labf The book names (and i'm guessing some place/people names) are beautifully poetic and aesthetically perfect in Chinese, but when translated they sound a bit cheesy lmao...('Cavern of the blood zombies' and 'Palace of doom' sounds like the title of an Adventure Time episode) But i'm sure the novels are still awesome! Enjoy

[@aimanhaikalthemalaysian7089]

The Europeans after this incident be like: "You have stolen what ive rightfully stolen!"

[@suprememax4948]

Basically any country in the world exists merely on the grounds of having stolen land from others through wars and conflicts ages ago

[@MartinLeong25]

Well people like winning then losing

[@Nimori]

Not really stolen when they earned it.

[@nickl5640]

Nimori Kandara and the Chinese earned it back, your point? Opium Wars started since the British smuggled drugs into China. Now the Chinese are reclaiming their own stuff? What’s wrong with that. I really hope that the Chinese are the ones who stole it so that they reclaim what is rightfully theirs.

[@Nimori]

Nick Luong They won it in the war though. Its like taking a japanese imperial flag and putting it in a museum. If china is so butthurt about that war, why buy it back like a normal country, like Egypt, Israel, or Germany?

[@dognutbrow6723]

Dude I’m OBSESSED with this channel

[@irane-ron4268]

I'd only somone would do a heist so kento bento can pay for his medical treatment

[@luissantiago5163]

Awesome to see you upload again! So hyped. Appreciate it!

[@inspired9340]

In India the situation was even worse.. They looted all the crafts,destroyed the techniques and looted the word "loot"

[@darklightreaper1]

the techniques still exist the brits stole the the antiquities and murtis but they couldn't steal how to make them just look at how how they're making the ram mandir or the one in abu dhabi in uae

[@k1.167]

Look at Africa they took their people as slaves looted their gold and resources colonised them and now it’s a poor struggling continent with even more poor countries the 1st world countries look down on them and feel bad but refuse to do anything about it

[@Ocudavidimvideooo]

@@k1.167 Yeah... The worst hypocrisy there is.

[@warbot2544]

They stole the KOHINOOR DIAMOND from India and shamelessly proud of having it, I WISH N PRAY FOR THE FALL OF USA , BRITAIN, FRANCE

[@raghnallm4004]

@@warbot2544 i just googled that and its absolutely disgusting what they did. the saying goes: the sun never sets on the british empire because even god wouldnt trust an englishman in the dark

[@Fusionmatter]

Hi Kento Bento I absolutely love your videos! Keep up the brilliant work!

[@eye8549]

Please keep making these heist vids. They're Awsome!

[@unoqueen_]

Damn... the Chinese were really smart about their heists if NO ONE has even found out yet.

[@nontent5641]

[This comment has been changed by the People's Republic Of China]

[@nakimteti7249]

9:40 they don't care

[@phenixsoaringreyes5445]

Yes my dear Watson, really smart indeed. Consider these cheeky maneuvers advanced political plays that would expose the crooks as hypocritical if they ever dared to speak up. Imagine: “Hey, where did you get that art that we plundered”. Frankly I’m chuffed to bits with whom ever is rescuing their rightful belongings. Bloody good show, & not just a show of political wits, but of ironic “thumb-nosery”. Nothing to see here, carry on. I’m sure the rightful rescuer’s know their way around “the land of embarrassment & breakfast”. Someone must have taught them to “never, never, never give up”.

[@mrlefo8652]

Plot twist : Musuem steals each others collections for their own musuem.

[@RubenVatle]

how come I never heard of this heist? at the time, I lived 10 minutes away from the museum in Norway! to my memory I cannot remember! LOL

[@LIZLISA137]

basically taking back what's rightfully theirs

[@imaverywhere6252]

A Chinese heist, not another North Korean heist? YES

[@-haclong2366]

¿Don't you also have another account dubbed "the Cuban-American"?

[@Miso391]

“And that is the chinese-“ Me: MAFIA “Government” *oh*

[@kostasdrakakis8386]

The suit of George Washington costs 3.000.000 $

[@kostasdrakakis8386]

@/X/EN did you know that George s Washington suit costs 3.000.000 $ ?

[@magmahotdesigns]

Same shit different smell

[@xexpaguette]

@@kostasdrakakis8386 no but that's stupid expensive.

[@VigilanteSystems]

Just wrote smth similiar here.. got deleted directly.. lol.. still believe if the Party gets hold of that old stuff it will destroy most of the art anyway.. cultural dictartorship, they live to change history...

[@nagarjunkashyap5987]

Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age and the British where their museum artefacts came from. Btw, the large diamond on the queen's crown, the kohinoor diamond was looted from india. The queen literally wears a symbol of their historic cruelty.

[@theanglo-lithuanian1768]

You mean the one given to the East India company by Duleep Singh as part of the peace treaty to conclude the 2nd Anglo-Sikh war?

[@SRCG2773]

@@theanglo-lithuanian1768 Just like when Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement to give a large part of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany?

[@karjalatakaisin]

Koh-i-noor was given to the British in a treaty, it had many different previous owners despite the indians, its origins are unclear and it has been claimed by other countries as well. It's not unequivocally Indian and it was definitely not looted.

[@debasishsahoo2738]

What if kohinoor diamond come back to India!

[@alvinang6883]

Look back at history, “oh they took it back” let’s remain at that.

[@martiddy]

Ikr!, is like Mongolia decides to start conquering all asian countries because it was their territory before.

[@nathanli3024]

@@martiddy They could try. And could get annexed by China and Russia for sure.

[@martiddy]

@@nathanli3024 I highly doubt that.

[@ChaoYinn]

@@martiddy Well, right NOW it belongs to China, since they took it back. Your analogy about how Mongolians wouldn't have the rights to take their territory back actually only applies to the British. It's also the same argument your doctor made when you were born and he chopped your nuts off.

[@carluse8828]

@@martiddy are you doubting the military capacity of China or Russia?

[@joshual4513]

Or maybe the person stole only Chinese art because he wanted to distract the authorities.

[@Natsumithegreat]

He actually just really likes burning cars

[@LethalMonarch]

Plot twist: the crimes were actually just burning cars, but the Chinese art stealing was just a side mission

[@palmlessprayer3859]

I know this video is old but some new information has surfaced surrounding this topic. Merely a month after this video was released some of the loot from the Chinese Pavilion heist in Stockholm was recovered. In September of 2019, the police busted a fence trying to sell the items, still in Sweden. Therefore it's very unlikely that the Chinese billionaires or the government would be the ones carrying out these heists. Yes, the reoccurcing theme is probably not a coincidence but the fact that some of the items were still in Sweden almost 10 years after the heist would indicate that something like that is inaccurate

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

Or the Chinese billionaires/government took what they wanted and let the middlemen dispose of the rest?

[@maxshrum5631]

Alright I’ve watched 3 of your videos. That’s enough for me, subscribed!

[@jhsr4827]

These thieves must be so professional, that they followed their “orders” to the letters and had only stolen “Chinese” artefacts. if I’m one of them, I will definitely be tempted to do some of my own “shopping” since I’m in the “shop” already...

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

Going off script is how ppl get caught

[@user-oy4ht7oc7w]

i would go full vigilante and return all the stolen art 😂

[@notme57812]

Nobody: Leonardo Da Vinci's drunk assistants: Watch this

[@cstoyluo5631]

Fun Fact: “Vinci” in his name is pronounced as “ vin-chi”

[@cooperspurlock4932]

@@cstoyluo5631 we know

[@nontent5641]

@@dotnet9830 correct

[@enric1478]

Love these so much

[@minhphupham85]

Well, maybe we can confirm those heists were made up by the Professor, and no one can stop him

[@Cxnxr]

I can’t believe sub box worked for once

[@trolloler5954]

I got the notification 2 hours late

[@99Kuromaru]

@@trolloler5954 same. what the heck, KZbin...

[@glorya469]

What happen if someone stole your stuff? You tell your great great grandson to stole it back in 150 years later.

[@ismailb4334]

Sounds good for me

[@ruzahel6287]

When asking someone to give back your artefacts doesn’t work, taking it back by force isn’t technically stealing. This is the funniest shit ever.

[@stobit6040]

"Many of these Chinese relics- Looty not included" 😂😂😂

[@DatAlien]

Robbing land through war: A ok. Robbing art through war: How dare you!

[@jochubigochu]

It’s kind of like the Infographics Show, but higher quality (since this channel is focused on these type of stories)

[@gamingwithamar3100]

Great work

[@SwagFather69]

The fact the Swedish Royal compound had no independent security is quite comedic.

[@giodelux0810]

Why does the first heist sound like the pacific standard job from gta v

[@devvaratbali6564]

british not only stole from china they stole from all parts of the world. what if other countries got inspired from china😁😁

[@zaingamingtv2242]

Unlike these robbers they initiated wars to get them

[@yashchaudhari406]

India, the golden bird

[@magmahotdesigns]

Or what if people didn’t commit crimes

[@thamstiny.7074]

Myanmar,the great ruby .for now it's in queen crown

[@gregoryvasilyev9675]

In order to steal from an empire with impunity, you have to be an empire, preferably more powerful. Just like the British back in the day. So not all countries are allowed to do that. It might be an act of historical justice, but the basic law of might makes right is as true now as it was then.

[@imforallz1593]

You sir ....are my new favourite channel on youtube

[@dkilo2979]

You make great content bro

[@Razi98]

This is a seriously well edited video - you need much more recognition for your efforts!

[@cirnowo]

4:40 i like how I'm listening to unravel right now and he just said unravel at the right time lmaoo

[@rachidchaoui926]

It is not stealing when you take back something which belonged to you in the first place.