Yiwu Trade Hub

The safety of two traders from Mumbai who are trapped in a hotel near Shanghai is creating a diplomatic flashpoint for India and China. The traders cannot leave a hotel in Yiwu, a trading hub, because their lives are at risk. Waiting outside are angry locals who say the company the traders worked for owes them a million dollars.

The two Indians traders, who were virtually held captive by locals in China's Yiwu trade hub, have now been shifted to a hotel for "safety" reasons by the police, even as India issued an advisory asking its traders to "stay away" from the busy commodities trading centre.

India issued an advisory asking its traders to "stay away" from the busy commodity centre in China's Yiwu trade hub.

The safety of two traders from Mumbai who are trapped in a hotel near Shanghai is creating a diplomatic flashpoint for India and China. The traders cannot leave a hotel in Yiwu, a trading hub, because their lives are at risk. Waiting outside are angry locals who say the company the traders worked for owes them a million dollars.

The two Indians traders, who were virtually held captive by locals in China's Yiwu trade hub, have now been shifted to a hotel for "safety" reasons by the police, even as India issued an advisory asking its traders to "stay away" from the busy commodities trading centre.

India issued an advisory asking its traders to "stay away" from the busy commodity centre in China's Yiwu trade hub.