Others say they are a geo-political tool used by Communist China to gain influence through 'panda diplomacy'. Or maybe they ...

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 has lent or given pandas to other countries since the seventh-century Tang Dynasty, and has had a 50-year relationship of "panda diplomacy" with the US. But the rare animals will soon ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC welcomed Bao Li and Qing Bao, two giant pandas from China, as the 'panda diplomacy' between both countries resumes. The zoo’s panda exhibit had been ...

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 ...

Sending these animals to different countries has become a tradition, which is often called panda diplomacy. Washington received the first pandas from Beijing in 1972 after President Richard Nixon ...