From AFP:
China hopes to send two pandas to Taiwan “soon”, the government said Wednesday, as Beijing uses its celebrated “panda diplomacy” on its longtime rival amid a dramatic thaw in relations.
“We hope that through the efforts of the two sides, the two giant pandas can settle in Taiwan soon,” Li Weiyi, spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said in comments posted on the bureau’s website.
Li provided no timetable, but a spokesman for Taipei’s Mucha Zoo, which was chosen last month to house the endangered animals, has said he hopes the facility will receive them as early as November.
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