Baby Panda Pawns
CNN: Taiwan cool to China panda-plomacy
The Taiwanese government, which has not decided whether to accept the animals, accused Beijing of acting rudely by announcing the gift without consulting the island, which China claims as part of its territory and has threatened to invade.
Taiwanese officials... [complained] China was pushing the island into accepting the pandas. "It shows severe disrespect to us," said Joseph Wu, the Cabinet official in charge of relations with the mainland.
Beijing first announced the offer in May when two Taiwanese opposition leaders visited the mainland in the island's highest-level trip since the two sides split in 1949 amid civil war. The two governments have no official relations.
is anyone else embarassed by this?
Posted by: labwitch | 01/10/2006 at 03:00 PM
I'll take 'em, too!
I wondered what Tai Shan and Su Lin would look like older, and then I saw that this cute little couple is one year old. Pandas just *stay* cute.
Posted by: CrackerLilo | 01/09/2006 at 11:39 PM
Heh femmebot, I was just thinking the same thing ;-)
Posted by: tuxette | 01/09/2006 at 07:24 AM
Well, if Taiwan doesn't want them, I'll take the pandas :)
Posted by: femmebot | 01/06/2006 at 11:40 PM