Panda bears being sent back to China

[cradleandshoot]

What is the point? These pandas have lived their entire life in the USA. I'm kinda guessing they were very happy here. I bet they don't even understand Mandarin.

[44WeWantMore]

Shhh, don't tell anybody, but the CIA implanted monitoring devices in them.

[youthathletics]

Shhh, don't tell anybody, but the CIA implanted monitoring devices in them.

After they removed the Chinese ones?

[44WeWantMore]

You win the thread.

[Farfromgeneva]

We still have them in Atlanta. Season passes are like 120 bucks so we’ve been taking the kids for a number of years. It may go away the mock news said there was like a five year deal most recently within the program, guess they roll the panda loan agreements every few years, with some time left but may not get renewed.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/11/08/worl ... index.html

Changing diplomacy
Agreements between China and the US zoos stipulate Beijing owns the pandas and any of their offspring, and they require payment “for the conservation of giant pandas in China.” The National Zoo has paid $500,000 a year; Zoo Atlanta says it has contributed more than $16 million since the start of its program in 1999.

[44WeWantMore]

If it is a required payment, then it is not a contribution.

[Farfromgeneva]

If it is a required payment, then it is not a contribution.

Those are excerpted from the piece not my words. Though if one has numerous payers then I think it’s still acceptable to describe a singular specific payers portion of that a “contribution”. But I write pitchbooks, investment memos, macros and embedded cell notes in my day to day so nobody’s confusing me for Dickens or Vonnegut.