Entries from Shanghaiist tagged with 'pandadiplomacy'
August 16, 2008
Photo of the panda couple Yuanyuan and Tuantuan by Xinhua News Agency Yuanyuan and Tuantuan, two giant pandas who made the headlines two years ago when Taiwan's government refused to accept them as a gift from mainland China, will now at long last be moving to Taiwan. Since the pandas' names together form the word "tuanyuan" (团圆) or "reunion", the gift was seen as having rather political undertones. With the newly elected KMT ruling......
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