Berlin residents are throwing some shade at the Chinese government by voting to name their new panda babies “Hong” and “Kong.”

One of Berlin’s leading papers, Der Tagesspiegel, asked its readers to come up with name suggestions for the cubs, born Aug. 31 at the Berlin Zoo.

The cubs and their parents, Meng Meng, 6, and Jiao Qing, 9, belong to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, a Chinese research center. The Berlin Zoo pays $1 million a year to house the popular bears.

That’s a common arrangement, similar to the one the National Zoo has with its pandas. Bao Bao, a panda born in the Washington, D.C. zoo in 2013, was sent back to China when she was about 3 years old so she could be part of the breeding program.

The Berlin voters wanted to show support for the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong with their name suggestions. Others in the newspaper poll also suggested naming the cubs “Joshua Wong Chi-fung” and “Agnes Chow Ting” after two prominent Hong Kong democracy activists.

One reader wrote in to say they should be named “in solidarity with a city fighting for survival,” the BBC reported.

The paper even suggested naming the pandas after the activists might be a backdoor way to keep the pandas in Germany once they mature.