America should genetically engineer their own pandas as a giant fuck-you. Not even a geopolitical thing. Not even a racist thing. Just a "you won't let us have pandas. Fine. We'll make our own."
More seriously, I find panda diplomacy brilliant. Really interesting how an incredibly poor country (at the time) managed to make use of such an interesting resource for international relations & trade.
Kind of similar to Thailands Gastro-diplomacy(Training chefs and exporting them and using Thai food as a means of boosting tourism).
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Kind of similar to Thailands Gastro-diplomacy(Training chefs and exporting them and using Thai food as a means of boosting tourism).