panda hugger
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Noun
panda hugger (plural panda huggers)
- (slang) A Western political activist or official who supports Communist Chinese policies.
- "It is the most outrageous mistake by White House personnel I have ever seen," one administration official said. "She used to be at [the U.S. Trade Representative's Office] in charge of getting China into the [World Trade Organization], so she is a perfect panda hugger."
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 290:
- The Administration has panda huggers like Mnuchin […]
See also
- tree hugger