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    Harper says China will lend panda pair to Canada

    BEIJING (AP) — Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up a visit to China aimed at boosting oil sales by announcing Saturday that Beijing will lend two of the country's prized giant pandas to Canadian zoos.

    Harper visited a zoo in the southwestern city of Chongqing to say that the Chinese government is loaning the panda pair to Canada for the next 10 years, Harper's press secretary Carl Vallee said.

    News photos showed Harper looking on as his wife carried a squirming baby panda.

    The pandas are expected to arrive in Canada early next year and will go to the Toronto and Calgary zoos for five years each. The giant panda is unique to China and is regularly sent abroad as a sign of warm diplomatic relations or to mark breakthroughs in ties.

    Harper also met with Bo Xilai, Chongqing's Communist Party secretary on Saturday, Vallee said. No details of their meeting were immediately available.

    One of China's most prominent political figures, Bo has been the subject of speculation in recent days after his once-close aide, former police chief Wang Lijun, went to the U.S. consulate in a nearby city purportedly to seek asylum.

    Wang's whereabouts is unknown. The uncertainty has fueled speculation over a falling-out between Wang and Bo, who has been seen as maneuvering for a seat on the ruling Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee, which will appoint new members later this year.

     

    12 comments

    • mina  •  3 mths ago
      That little panda is so cute
    • noway  •  Haikou, China  •  3 mths ago
      China is paying top dollars for many Canadian products: oil, oil sands, forest products, all kinds of ores. Being a resource rich country with relative small population, Canada and China can perfectly complement each other. It's a win-win situation.
      • anonymouse 3 mths ago
        you might want to do some research on China's enterprises in Angola before complimenting this deal. china doesn't do win-win.
    • JamesS  •  3 mths ago
      It would be hard to describe in words the thrill of holding a panda baby.
    • Kuldip Vasisht  •  3 mths ago
      Harper is an idiot. For a pair of Pandas he is willing to sell his country to the chinese.
    • C-3PO  •  3 mths ago
      Those pandas are either fake or toxic, possibly both.
    • terror i  •  Ithaca, New York  •  3 mths ago
      Coming from China?I would check to see if their not pigs painted to look like pandas
      • 赵红 3 mths ago
        the pigs painted to look like pandas are coming from New York. lol
      • coocoo 3 mths ago
        nono!! it was your pig face painted like pandas...
      • terror i 3 mths ago
        #$%$
    • anonymouse  •  3 mths ago
      China Pimps out Pandas for Canada's Oil, Minerals....that would have been a much more interesting headline.
    • expletive_xom  •  3 mths ago
      Canada can always use the Dragon Warrior
    • Anh  •  3 mths ago
      Panda is always cute .
      "Dear leader" is always wicked-face .
      So, we better make friend with pandas than "dear leader" .
      • Silence 3 mths ago
        Truly, China is not your friend. China's your boss.
    • anonymouse  •  3 mths ago
      i wanna see those pandas dressed up in ski parkas w/a big red maple leaf on them. the chinese would choke on their chop sticks!
    • mina  •  3 mths ago
      That little panda looks cute
    • PatrickB  •  3 mths ago
      China's solution to all world problems is to give away panda bears. Perhaps a shipment of bears to Syria would bring about an end to the violence there. Stupid Communists!
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