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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The panda loan deal between the United States and China had been set to expire in December. The National Zoo said it had signed a three-year extension with the Conservation Biology Institute and ...

China has long been sending the rare members of the bear family to nations overseas as a goodwill gesture meant to build ties in a practice dubbed “panda diplomacy”. In 1972, Beijing ...