China Takes Back Giant Pandas From San Diego Zoo Amid Bitter Trade War

[El OchoCinco]

Before they go back I would have the U.S. Grizzly bang them

 

[murray t turtle]

For a high-IQ society, the Chinese oddly tend to get stuck in these narrow mental ruts. For years, China's foreign ministry has spent most of its time cracking the whip on much smaller, typically third-world countries when the latter step out of line. Withdrawing pandas from, say, the Brunei Zoo is a non-destructive way to assert dominance, and works because the Sultan cares more about showing off his pandas than he does about tariffs on Chinese noodles or whatever.

In dealing with the U.S., China's most important tool is PR. The whole point is for Joe Sixpack to associate China with cuddly pandas, rather than with his last bout of unemployment caused by cancelled orders for whiskey or soybeans. So as silly as this kind of thing is, they're shooting themselves in the foot.

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That + they came up with the bright idea of slaughtering all the sparrows, WSJ reported.OOPS then nothing to eat the grasshoppers, the famine related killed about 30 million chicoms.
Nothing like a big/oversize know it all gov,

 

[Overnight]

China Tariffs

President Trump has waved his tariff stick in Beijing's direction again, telling reporters: ...

So he's like Gabby, with her little stick!

Wonder if he's a sidekick.

 

[ironchef]

This is what happens when an incredibly stupid man who think s he is brilliant goes up against an incredibly brilliant man who knows just how stupid his self-deluding competitor is.

You called Xi stupid and delusional? Many in China agree that he should not unveil China 2025 to wake up the US and Trump.