Soaring demand from China’s new rich is fuelling the illicit trade in rare
southeast Asian wood, stoking political tensions over natural resource flows from the region’s nations to their giant neighbour to the north.
Demand for neoclassical redwood furniture has raised prices for some forms of timber to tens of thousands of dollars per cubic metre and sparked deadly clashes between tree poachers and rangers in Mekong region forests.
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