SINGAPORE: When Singapore’s giant pandas Kai Kai and Jia Jia - both on loan from China - had a cub of their own in 2021, an online poll to decide its name drew tens of thousands of votes in just a few days. And as soon as the baby panda was ready for public viewing, visitors flocked to the zoo in throngs
SINGAPORE: When Singapore’s giant pandas Kai Kai and Jia Jia - both on loan from China - had a cub of their own in 2021, an online poll to decide its name drew tens of thousands of votes in just a few days.
Giant pandas Chuang Chuang and Lin Hui, on loan from China, play together at Chiang Mai Zoo on September 3, 2005. Soft power can be seen as a non-coercive form of influence, as explained by Assistant Professor Benjamin Ho, who coordinates the China programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies think-tank.
Shortly after former American president Richard Nixon’s high-profile visit to China in 1972, Ling Ling and Hsing Hsing were welcomed to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington by thousands. Last year, Beijing sent two giant pandas to Qatar just ahead of the football World Cup, fulfilling a request by Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani during an earlier state visit to China.
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