{"id":144539,"date":"2026-01-20T11:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144539"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:35:26","slug":"japans-last-2-giant-pandas-set-for-early-trip-home-to-china-as-tensions-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144539","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s last 2 giant pandas set for early trip home to China as tensions spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe last two giant pandas in Japan are set to leave for China on January 27, one month ahead of schedule as bilateral tensions continue to worsen.<br \/>\nThe return of the twins, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, marks the first time in about half a century that Japan will be without any pandas. Beijing first sent two of the animals to Tokyo to mark the normalisation of diplomatic relations in 1972.<br \/>\nThe four-year-olds were born at Tokyo\u2019s Ueno Zoo but technically all giant pandas and their offspring in overseas&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3340574\/japans-last-2-giant-pandas-set-early-trip-home-china-tensions-spiral?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe last two giant pandas in Japan are set to leave for China on January 27, one month ahead of schedule as bilateral tensions&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}