• clutchmatic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t China still enforcing the concept that any panda born overseas is the property of the Chinese state?

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      1 year ago

      I believe they manage this because they have a monopoly on the world’s supply, and they only ‘loan’ them to zoos on the condition that they still belong to China (including any offspring).