Administrators cannot discuss panda illness, death, disease or "any other important matters" without first consulting with their Chinese partners, whose views "shall be fully respected."
"In cases where release of related information to the outside world or acceptance of media interviews is necessary, it shall be implemented only after communication and consultation between the parties and a consensus is reached," the contracts read. "And where no consensus is reached, no news shall be released."
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Zoos pay up to $1.1 million a year to rent pairs of pandas from China. To raise money, zoos court donations from everyday people and big-ticket philanthropists.
The arrangement is, at its heart, a rental. China retains ownership of the pandas, and zoos pay for the right to display and breed them for a decade.
But the China Wildlife Conservation Association prohibits zoos from discussing the deal in that way. "Commercial terms such as 'lease,' 'rental,' 'loan agreement' or 'contract' shall not be used," the National Zoo's current contract dictates.
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Yeah thats kinda the whole point of Panda Diplomacy.
The Zoo Cucks aren't even allowed to call the Pandas fat and lazy.
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They should clone or steal a few if they get too uppity about Taiwan.
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Just do what the chinese do and dye white dogs.
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America has no need for fakes. Have the rando that cloned/genetically modified giant KyrgyzstanI sheep do it.
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Lame pandas or superior red pandas?
Because if it's red pandas, then - still worth it
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literally just a red rat
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Why is this surprising
to you?
Also, you can have your spergout in the body after you post some cute pandas at the top. That's how this hole works.
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Here you go
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They're !male feminists anyway
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1fnr05d/panda_attack/
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This panda's name is Ding Ding
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Maybe if it wasn't named Ding Ding it wouldn't be so mad.
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B-word closed a door on him. I'd maul her too desu
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It's honestly perfectly fine. You just have to be careful because before being shipped to western countries they're conditioned to react violently to the smell of capitalist pigs.
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So close. He zigged when he should have zagged.
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You think that's crazy? I just got a pixel 9 and went to screenshot a picture of the dogs painted like pandas from a Google search and all you get is a black screenshot
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Incognito mode?
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Lmao doubt it but I'll try
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I only browse rdrama on my desktop because my phone auto-corrects "Tiananmen Square Massacre" to "peaceful disarmament of counter-revolutionary traitors".
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TBF have you ever actually talked to a panda? It's basically just constant jokes where the punchline is the n-word.
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We should unironically just take some of the pandas. Let China seethe about it.
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what if we just didn't give the pandas back?
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Snapshots:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/world/asia/panda-rental-contracts.html:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Wish they had cloned some pandas
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