Xi provides Biden bear hug: Chinese president gives to offer U.S. pandas

Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled Beijing will ship new pandas to the United States quickly, making the pronouncement after his day-long summit with President Joe Biden.

The pandas will be the most seen deliverable of the high-stakes assembly, though the White House additionally pointed to China‘s settlement to crack down on fentanyl manufacturing and resume military-to-military communications.

Xi did not say the place the pandas would find yourself – Washington D.C.’s National Zoo returned its pair to China final week – however it’s trying like the brand new bears might find yourself in California, the place Xi is attending a summit hosted by California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

‘We are able to proceed our cooperation with the United States on panda conservation, and do our greatest to satisfy the desires of the Californians in order to deepen the pleasant ties between our two peoples,’ Xi stated Wednesday night throughout a dinner speech with enterprise leaders.

Chinese President Xi Jinping indicated he would ship extra pandas to the United States – above he walks with President Joe Biden

The U.S. solely has 4 pandas after Washington D.C.’s bears (above) returned to China

Xi prompt the pandas would almost definitely to return to California, in all probability the San Diego Zoo, which has beforehand hosted bears.

‘We clearly appreciated having them right here,’ White House spokesman John Kirby stated Thursday morning of the pandas. 

‘And we respect the sovereign choice that China made to maneuver a few of the pandas and, ought to the choice made by the PRC to revive a few of the pandas, we’d welcome that.’

Pandas have change into an emblem of diplomacy for China, who initially gifted two bears to the United States in 1972, forward of the normalization of relations.

Beijing continued to mortgage pands to the United States and different nations however the bears are on a strict lease program and finally return to China.

The National Zoo’s three big pandas, Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji, eight days in the past started their lengthy journey to China. After their departure, solely 4 pandas are left within the United States, within the Atlanta Zoo.

‘I used to be advised that many American folks, particularly youngsters, had been actually reluctant to say goodbye to the pandas, and went to the zoo to see them off,’ Xi stated in his speech. He added that he discovered the San Diego Zoo and other people in California ‘very a lot sit up for welcoming pandas again.’

The Chinese chief addressed enterprise leaders after his 4 hour assembly with Biden on the outskirts of San Francisco.

The bears will probably be loaded into specifically designed crates for the 19-hour journey by van and airplane to Chengdu, China

While some tensions stay, significantly over Taiwan, Washington and Beijing managed to reopen relations that had change into strained during the last 12 months, significantly after a Chinese spy balloon drifted over the United States and was ulimtately shot down by U.S. forces.

‘We’re again to direct, open clear direct communication on a direct foundation,’ Biden stated after the assembly. 

But Biden additionally later stated he had not modified his view that Xi is a dictator.

‘Well, look, he’s. I imply, he is a dictator within the sense that he’s a man who runs a rustic that may be a communist nation,’ Biden stated.

But Biden and Xi agreed China would stem the export of things associated to the manufacturing of the opioid fentanyl, a number one reason behind deaths within the United States.

‘It’s going to avoid wasting lives,’ Biden stated, including he appreciated Xi’s ‘dedication’ on the difficulty.