FedEx wrongdoings to fore again

The police in Jin'an, Fuzhou city, East China's Fujian province, said on Sunday that they had received a tip-off that a local sports equipment company received a parcel containing a firearm.

If the news release stopped there, it would presumably be no different from many other firearms cases handled by the police and be simply part of the police's year-end work summary - the police in Fuzhou investigated 128 cases related to guns last year, and more than 30,000 gun-related cases were probed by the police nationwide.

But what has made headlines is the parcel was sent from the United States via FedEx, a US express delivery company that has been under investigation by the State Post Bureau since June on suspicion it illegally held back and misdirected to its US headquarters packages of the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei that Washington is intent on attacking.