intrestingly enough on the wow model viewer there are 2 chinese dragons one made of jade and one normal. they are flying mounts. maybe your on to something!

I absolutely love the idea of pandaren being a playable race! I do not however believe that they would make it a new class, for both sides to play. Monk would be the class pandaren would be a race. An Asian theme would be EPIC i mean in cataclysm beta goblins have Chinese take out in the house (seriously!) Where do you think the got that from! I certainly never saw any Chinese items. Also with the release of cataclysm there adding fortune cookies as a cooking recipe along with other Asian themed cooking recipes. I think they are eventually going to allow the pandaren as a playable race but I believe they will introduce Monk as a class first. Once Monk is a class then Pandaren will be the next x-pac being horde ofcorse because the pandaren, lore wise do not like alliance. Also they would be a new class that could also be druids. Aliance would see another class on their side be able to be druids, maybe... I dono, maybe humans could be druids (considering worgen druids maybe they could teach the humans)

Im throwing my vote tho with pandarans as a playable race and monk as a class!