Newborn baby panda attracts attention from both sides of the Taiwan Strait
A baby panda, born to parents Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, has re-ignited talks of "Panda Diplomacy" between the mainland and Taiwan
A newly-born panda cub has been drawing attention on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and many online observers have pointed out that it is one of the first pandas born outside the mainland to be allowed to remain in its birthplace.
The female cub was nicknamed “Yuan Zai” by nurses, who remarked that it looked like a yuan zai glutinous rice ball. It was born in Taipei Zoo on July 6. Zoo officials said on Sunday that the cub had a good appetite and was growing each day, currently weighing a healthy 243.4 grams. It is still in an incubator and will remain secluded from the public for six months.
“It’s too cute,” one netizen wrote on China’s Sina Weibo, where the general sentiment was that the cub looked more like a little mouse than a panda.