[Quote of the Week] “It’s not our job to find new trading areas for our Chinese friends.”

“It’s not our job to find new trading areas for our Chinese friends,” said Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov after China protested his city’s closing of the sprawling Cherkizovsky market. Police shut down the market on June 29 after a lengthy smuggling investigation. While officials cited health and safety violations as the main reasons for its actions, the smuggling and sale of contraband goods were the larger issues involved.