CHINA PANDA DIPLOMACY TOWARDS INDONESIA IN 2017
Abstract
Giant Panda, cute animal, and tagging with attractive behavior is China’s world superstar. Despite its cuteness, the existence of giant panda is threatened in which make the government of China taking some effort in saving the panda from extinct. Panda diplomacy is one of China effort in avoiding this species from extinction. The giant panda now sends abroad in the project of loan breeding. Obviously, not all country in this world is able to receive the panda loan breeding. This thesis tries to find how panda diplomacy plays a role in the development of China relations with Indonesia through multi-track diplomacy approach. The method that uses in this thesis is qualitative methods where the data is used secondary data. The result shows that both China and Indonesia need a partner in implementing the panda loan breeding project. Diplomacy panda also aims in richen up the intellectual research in terms of giant panda that live outside its original country.