Big panda "Baoli" and "Qingbao" flying to Washington, USA from Sichuan, China last week, marking that the Washington National Zoo welcomes Chinese Panda again after 24 years.However, the blessing of the diplomatic trip of the Panda Messenger on the Internet of China is far less controversial and questioning.
Among the pair of giant pandas, the three -year -old "Baoli" and the Washington National Zoo are not very different.Its mother "Baby" was born here in 2013, and its grandfather and grandmother "Tian Tian" and "Meixiang" just returned to China from here last November.
Many Chinese pandas are fascinated on Weibo, Xiaohongshu, Douyin and other social media platforms to protest: "After finally picking up the treasures home, and sending their offspring to suffer", "Why take us usThe national treasure is given to Americans abuse. "Others believe that when the concept of "panda diplomatic" has passed, it should not continue to be implemented.
The dissatisfaction of panda fans has begun to the healthy storm of the giant panda in the United States in recent years.
In February last year, the giant panda "Lele" in the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee died of heart disease.Prior to this, the existing animal protection organizations and panda enthusiasts questioned the treatment of Lele in the zoo, arguing that the zoo did not take care of the panda, which caused Lele to weight below the normal standard, and several teeth fractures.The "Yaya" who went to the United States at the same time with Lele had hair removal due to creep mites, and both pandas had different degrees of stereotypes.
Two months after the death of Lele, the 22 -year -old Yaya ended in the 20 -year lease period in the United States and returned to the Beijing Zoo she was born.China Deputy Foreign Minister and Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Hua Chunying posted a comparison photo of Yaya on the social media platform X on the social media platform X.Still the West, home is always the best)
Photos show that in the United States, she is as thin as firewood and hair falling off. After returning to Beijing, she was fat and her hair became fluffy and shiny.This further confirms that Chinese panda fans' views on the "abuse of giant pandas in the United States" make them even more resistant to "panda diplomacy".
Panda diplomatic willow dark flowers
China has presented or leased giant pandas from the 1940s to enhance friendly relations and is called "panda diplomacy".As early as 1941, Song Meiling, then the first lady of the Republic of China, presented two giant pandas to the US Federation of Aid China to thank them for their relief to Chinese refugees during World War II.
After the establishment of the Communist Party of China in 1949, the most famous panda diplomatic cases were the "Lingling" and "Xingxing" received by US President Nixon when they were officially established in 1972.After the giant panda was included in the list of endangered species in 1984, China stopped giving away giant pandas and continued panda diplomacy in a way to rent.
Yaya returned to China, and the Meixiang, Timina, who lived in Washington, USA, and their cub's miracle also returned to China after the lease ended in November last year.At this point, there are only four big pandas in the Atlanta Zoo, which will also be sent back to China in October this year.The United States, which once has the most panda outside China, is about to face the crisis of panda for the first time in more than 50 years; panda diplomacy, which is precarious, is regarded as a microcosm of deterioration of Sino -US relations.
However, after the first meeting in San Francisco in the United States in November last year, the relationship between the two countries showed signs of recovery.Chinese officials said at a joint banquet at the American friendly group at the time that China was willing to continue to carry out panda protection cooperation with the United States, suggesting that more giant pandas would go to the United States.
In April this year, China announced that it would send giant pandas "Yunchuan" and "Xinbao" to San Diego Zoo, California, USA to launch a 10 -year protection of giant panda exchange cooperation.The pair of pandas met with the local public in August this year, and Bao Li and Qingbao, who arrived in the United States last week, are expected to make public appearances in January next year.
According to the China News Agency, the Chinese ambassador to the United States Xie Feng said at a welcome ceremony held for Yunchuan and Xinbao., Important signal, "Sino -US panda protection cooperation will not be disconnected, humanistic exchanges and local cooperation between the two countries will not stop, and the gate of the friendly people of China and the United States will not be closed once it is opened."
New version of protocol restrictions increase
However, the New York Times reported last weekend that the latest Panda Protection Cooperation Agreement has added many restrictions.Compared with the previous agreement, the new version of the agreement will be transferred to the China Wildlife Protection Association.
For example, the agreement requires the US zoo to discuss the illness, death, or "any other important matters" of giant pandas without consulting Chinese partners.If the garden party must publish relevant information or be interviewed by the media, it should be implemented after communicating and negotiation between China and the United States and reaching consensus, otherwise no news shall be released.
For more than, the annual rent of each giant panda is as high as $ 1 million. The American Zoo also pays the expenses of Chinese giant panda experts regularly to the United States, including air tickets, accommodation and daily allowances.However, the zoo is prohibited from using commercial terms such as "rent" and "lease" to describe the transaction.The Washington National Zoo previously defined this agreement with "loan", and now it is changed to a "cooperative research and breeding agreement".
After the many panda fans witnessed the widening picture of the Lole's life through the live broadcast of the Memphis Zoo, the agreement also tightened the control of the panda live broadcast.The San Diego Zoo's agreement stipulates that it can only play videos or photos pre -approval by the garden.
In addition, the China Wild Insurance Association can also terminate the agreement and recall pandas on reasons such as "improper breeding management" and "healthy problems with giant pandas", and even "unauthorized publishing related information".
Another report of New Year pointed out that it aims to artificially breeding the giant panda and realize the panda protection plan returned from the wild, and it is difficult during the implementation process.In more, giant pandas are just gimmicks that are used as zoos as attractive tourists and selling goods.
From the perspective of animal welfare, panda fans areThe concerns of "suffering" in the United States are not unique.And whether the new version of the agreement helps to better protect the panda, or simply restricts the public's right to know the treatment of panda, it is also questionable.There are also netizens "pushing people and bears", thinking that when relations between China and the United States are tense, the United States makes difficult Chinese companies and Chinese citizens in the United States, and they will not worry about pandas.
Civil exchanges are an important part of Sino -US relations. While sending the panda messengers of panda to impress ordinary people, they should also ensure that panda welfare is guaranteed with more transparent rules and promotes the progress of panda protection cooperation in order to dispel the panda to dispel the pandaThe concerns of fans, solve the hearts of the people of the two countries, make panda diplomacy play a greater role.
