Panda politics
mercredi 11 septembre 2019 à 02:00China uses pandas as instruments of international public relations. Now Germans are turning that around by calling two newborn pandas "Hong" and "Kong".
To maintain its monopoly on pandas, China only leases them, never selling them, and the lease says that all offspring belong to China. But this is no reason for Germans to call the pandas by the names that China says are "official".
One small but significant way to push back on China is by not making any particular fuss about pandas.