Yes, a loose connection but as China does treat them as if they are IP and with as much (if not more so) control - I include them. For example - if a country was to clone Panda's without China's consent, the level of outrage and response would be very comparable had some high-level IP had been stolen.

But as an isolated example - I'll agree it is a weak one, but worth including for how it is treated as IP by the country.

I think he was just pointing out that it's Pandas, not Panda's.

My bad, I've clearly mentally added an exclamation mark in my mind and ran with that.