Panda Politics: What a Panda-Less DC Says About US Relations With China
Looking back on more than 50 years of “panda diplomacy."
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Looking back on more than 50 years of “panda diplomacy."
"Rich Chinese are literally eating this exotic mammal into extinction," read a recent Global Post expose of the devastating trade in the pangolin, a scaly anteater that Chinese consider a delicacy. According to the Post, the adorable animals (which one columnist described as "a four-legged pine cone") had become the most heavily trafficked mammal in the world, in large part
Xin Xin is Latin America’s last remaining descendant of giant pandas gifted by China decades ago. Xin Xin the panda is already 32 years old and is considered to be very old by conservationists.
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