MH370 chills China-Malaysia \\\'panda diplomacy\\\'
Friday, 11 April 2014
China has postponed plans to send a pair of pandas to Malaysia next week, a minister said Friday, as bilateral relations remain uneasy over the disappearance of flight MH370. The two countries agreed in 2012 that China would send the giant pandas for a 10-year stay in Malaysia, in Beijing's latest use of "panda diplomacy" to cement ties with other countries. But Malaysia's environment minister G. Palanivel said "They (China) are waiting for the results of MH370. "They will delay the arrival," he said in a text message, according to AFP.