Tai Shan, the National Zoo’s four-year-old panda cub, will be sent to the People’s Republic of China, the largest U.S. creditor, Smithsonian officials announced today.
The United States owes China approximately eleventy-seven trillion dollars plus three giant pandas.
Panda repo details here.
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