Panda diplomacy

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Pat Nixon at the Beijing Zoo , 1972

Under panda diplomacy the approach is China understood on the west by symbolic gestures and gifts. The name is derived from the early practice, panda bear to give away those only occurring in China.

history

Giant panda Bao Bao in the Berlin Zoological Garden

The first "panda gift" was given to US President Richard Nixon in 1972 . He brought a pair of pandas to the Washington Zoo from his state visit to Mao Zedong in China . The animals were seen by 75 million visitors. Since then, China has given away pandas 23 more times.

In 1980, the then German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt also received two pandas, which he accepted for the Berlin Zoological Garden .

The panda gifts were not always accepted, most recently in 2005 Taiwan refused to accept two bears named "Tuan Tuan" (團團) and "Yuan Yuan" (圓圓), which together is the Chinese word for "reunification" (團圓 tuányuán) results. The background to this is Taiwan's refusal to comply with the Chinese wish for the reunification of the two states ( one-China policy ). Following the election of the new President Ma Ying-jeou , the two pandas were adopted in 2008 and arrived in Taiwan in December 2008.

According to reports, since 2007 pandas have stopped being given away, only given away. The lending fee should be one million euros per year. In June 2017, the Berlin Zoo received a couple for a rental fee of 900,000 euros per year.

See also

literature

Zhang Jingjing: Panda Diplomacy. Foreign Languages ​​Teaching & Research Press, 2009. ISBN 978-7-5600-9159-4

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Online: The Panda Propaganda
  2. ^ World Online: End of Panda Diplomacy
  3. ↑ Handelsblatt: Taiwan fears China's panda diplomacy
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: Beijing Panda Diplomacy
  5. ↑ Panda-mania grips Taiwan as Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan arrive. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost: Ciao, Bao Bao of 23 August 2012
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