For the first time in more than two decades, giant pandas are en route from China to a San Diego zoo in the U.S. — a sign ...

Dennis Wilder, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, called the trend “punitive panda diplomacy,” noting that two other American ...

Berlin zoo’s newborn twin panda cubs have attracted a fair deal of attention this week – not so much for their cuteness and for being the first pandas to be born in Germany, but for the naming ...

After their departure, two new pandas will take their place in part of a diplomatic exchange known as "panda diplomacy". Executive Director of Zoos South Australia Elaine Bensted says the pandas ...

WASHINGTON--China’s panda diplomacy may have one true winner: the pandas themselves. Decades after Beijing began working with zoos in the U.S. and Europe to protect the species, the number of ...

China gifted friendly nations with its unofficial mascot for decades as part of a “panda diplomacy″ policy. The country now ...

In the emerging phase 3, panda loans are associated with nations supplying China with valuable resources and technology and symbolize China's willingness to build guanxi-namely, deep trade ...

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The act of loaning pandas is part of a diplomatic tool known as panda diplomacy and is often done so as countries are normalising or building relations with China. Pro-democracy and human rights ...