The Formosan Blue Magpie and The Xi-Ma Summit

IN the context of the Xi-Ma summit in Singapore, the People's Daily reports that Ma will present Xi with a statuette of a Formosan Blue Magpie and says that, as this bird is only found in Taiwan, presenting it to Xi 'symbolizes that "people across the Strait are one family”'. The People's Daily is well known as a mouthpiece of the CCP, but this bit of spin seems a bit counter-intuitive, even for this newspaper. I would have thought the gift might be interpreted as  a coded message to Ma that the Taiwanese were one family, since

Formosan  Blue Magpies are reported to exhibit strong nest defence behaviour and 'will attack intruders mercilessly until they retreat'.