What China gains from panda cubs in Berlin | DW News

Berlin Zoo has welcomed two new giant panda cubs. Meng Meng gave birth to the twins just eleven days after scans showed she was pregnant.
The panda cubs were conceived through artificial insemination. Meng Meng also had twins five years ago. Those babies were returned to China. As in nature, Panda daddy Jiao Qing is not involved in rearing the cubs. Like their parents, the cubs belong to the Chinese state, which only lends pandas to selected countries.

00:00 Newborn pandas in Berlin
00:33 DW speaks with Ho-fung Hung of Johns Hopkins University

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[shabaz]

I thought something else from thumbnail😮

[ChopinLuke]

At first I thought it was a panda story, then 1 minute into the story, DW tried to Politicized it again. 😢

[WRITER]

Germany: Tiananmen square

China: You've been naughty recently, no panda for you.

[SchmuddelWuddel]

The standard fee that zoos pay to China is typically around $1 million per year per pair of pandas. If pandas give birth to cubs while on loan, the hosting zoo usually pays an additional fee of around $400, 000 per cub.

[Mr.Chezzz]

Mexico is the only country to have its own panda that china granted permission to keep given it was born in Aztec soil.

[kylesmith]

A gift and a loan are very different things. Not to quibble, but it's a pretty big difference.

[scbtripwire]

Panda diplomacy "rentals" are such a bad idea. It doesn't take into account the mental health of the pandas, being torn from the carers they know and trust for no reason they can understand. Shipping them around by plane I imagine would be stressful for them, too.

[DannyBoi]

It's probably better for zoos to not feature pandas.

[okapijohn]

I am sure that if the chinese ambassador would have a child would not appear on the news.

[DOWNUNDER.]

To be allowed to house pandas your country's politics must be positive and palatable to china. Germany's politicians must have CCP approved correct thinking,
That is a worry 😟

[Blue-Dog--lion]

Pandas are dead weight. Just ask Jim Jefferies. 😂

[tidusfantasy]

his accent is soooo annoying. Im asian too, when we hear accent like this, we cringe.. It's like french people who speaks proper english hearing their country side people speaking english