US wants to pay less for pandas
Zoos in the United States have told China they cannot afford to keep paying $1 million (£580,000) each year for the loan of Giant Pandas. [...] Washington National Zoo spokesman John Gibbons told the BBC: "There is a possibility that there may be a day when there may not be Giant Pandas at the zoo.
"We have had informal discussions with the Chinese and told them that we can't sustain the current expenditure and we are waiting for a response."
The Washington zoo was the birthplace of "panda diplomacy" in the 1970s when the Chinese Government donated two pandas amid efforts to improve Sino-US relations.[BBC]
It's not so much the panda as all the other items in the contract... like those the bottomless bowls of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed.
Less Pandas mean less Panda beef jerky. This is not good. In fact this is very bad for me. I like the spicy one.
Posted by: Squashed | March 12, 2006 at 07:51 PM
We're getting a much better deal with Yao Ming.
Posted by: Njorl | March 13, 2006 at 10:47 AM