panda diplomacy
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The practice of China gifting or loaning giant pandas to other countries as a symbol of friendship and goodwill in order to strengthen diplomatic ties.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Panda diplomacy, in its current form, works like this: China loans pandas to a zoo in the United States or another country, and the zoo pays an annual fee — usually $500,000 to $1 million each — to keep the pandas for at least a few years. The animals serve as good-will ambassadors for China while, experts said, softening the country’s authoritarian image and drawing attention away from its record of human rights abuses."