Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend opening of a $10 million Chinese compound in the Berlin Zoo.
Two days before the start of the G20 summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel indulged in “panda diplomacy”, opening a $10 million Chinese compound in Berlin Zoo for Meng and Jiao Qing — two giant pandas that China is lending to Germany as a token of friendship.
President Xi said during an hour-long ceremony that Germany had expressed a wish for the pandas, to which he responded “positively.”
Xi’s visit, a month after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang travelled to Berlin to meet Merkel, comes at an extremely sensitive time for big-power relations ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg.
