Giant pandas, Adelaide zoo, AUS

Don't pander to China's "panda diplomacy" — China uses these cute-seeming animals to extract diplomatic concessions that have real importance.

I've posted about this before.

China doesn't give or sell pandas, it only lends them for a limited time, and any offspring belong to China. So China can demand concessions from countries that have pandas and don't want to relinquish them.

Oddly enough, Taiwan has some pandas which it actually owns. If Taiwan can produce some baby pandas, it could undermine China's panda diplomacy.