🔆 Malaysia’s Orangutan Diplomacy 📍 Context: ✅ Malaysia plans to gift orangutans to countries that import its palm oil, using "orangutan diplomacy" to strengthen ties. 📍 About Animal Diplomacy: ✅ Definition: The practice of gifting or lending animals to foster diplomatic relations and goodwill. ✅ Historical Examples: Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Kings exchanged lions and tigers as symbols of power. Ancient Egypt: Pharaohs sent giraffes to Samarkand. 1827: Muhammad Ali Pasha gifted a giraffe to King Charles X of France, famously called "La Belle Africaine". 📍 Concerns: ⚠️ Ethical issues in using animals as diplomatic tools. ⚠️ Potential exploitation of endangered species.