{"id":62689,"date":"2024-03-19T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/20\/adelaide-zoo-giant-pandas-wang-wang-fu-ni-china-foreign-minister-visit"},"modified":"2024-03-19T23:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T14:00:39","slug":"how-two-giant-pandas-loaned-to-adelaide-zoo-tell-the-story-of-the-ups-and-downs-of-china-australia-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62689","title":{"rendered":"How two giant pandas loaned to Adelaide zoo tell the story of the ups and downs of China-Australia relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giant panda pair Wang Wang and Fu Ni have been on loan from China since 2009 \u2013 now their future in Australia hangs in the balance <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They might be cute and cuddly, but Australia\u2019s only giant pandas are in fact expensive \u2013 though nonverbal \u2013 Chinese diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>The fate of Wang Wang and Fu Ni, who have called Adelaide zoo home for the last 15 years, will be decided on Wednesday after a meeting between Australian politicians and China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/20\/adelaide-zoo-giant-pandas-wang-wang-fu-ni-china-foreign-minister-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant panda pair Wang Wang and Fu Ni have been on loan from China since 2009 \u2013 now their future in Australia hangs in the balance Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThey might be cute and cuddly, but Australia\u2019s on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1183,43,50,682,42,683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adelaide","category-australia-news","category-china","category-giant-pandas","category-world-news","category-zoos"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62691,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62689\/revisions\/62691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}