Posted on 08/08/2019 7:52:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Copenhagen Zoo removed a map showing Taiwan as independent after complaints from China, before getting two coveted pandas on loan, letters leaked to the 24syv radio station have revealed. [ ]
The map showing the animals global distribution had marked the island of Taiwan in a different color from mainland China, signaling its political independence.
After receiving the letter, zoo officials removed the map ahead of the delivery of the two pandas, Mao Sun and Xing Er, in April.
The Chinese made us aware that they consider Taiwan a part of China, the zoo told the station.
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I consider China a plate I eat off of at holidays. Why gives a crap if a map offenders them
This is communism, they won’t even let the people who oppose it live on their own damned island....
If earth was taken over by commies and the last freedom loving people left to live on an asteroid you can bet the commies would starve billions to fund a space program to nuke them....
I would even bet my whole live savings on it.
Zoo blackmail now?? Insane.
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