China doesn’t hand out their precious panda bears without some serious relationship considerations. China announced today that it would loan two pandas to Singapore.
Singapore is rapidly becoming the financial center of Asia and this gift from China shows how important China considers the relationship with Singapore to be.
The last country to receive pandas was Taiwan.
You Obama will come home with some Chinese pandas? After kicking China in the groin with several tariffs on Chinese goods, Obama will be lucky to come home with some cheap Chinese trinkets.
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