The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) published in October 2015 a paper titled "Not Beating around the Bush: Understanding China and South Africa's Illegal Wildlife Trade" by Yu-Shan Wu, a researcher at SAIIA.
The illegal wildlife trade is one of the complexities that exists in China-South African relations. It translates into a lack of common understanding in policy spaces on the intrinsic value of wildlife in South Africa.