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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Her success in securing a promise to send the animals will write a new chapter in a long history of panda diplomacy in the United States. Several of the giant pandas at U.S. zoos had been called ...

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 ...

Bao Li and Qing Bao, two giant pandas, have arrived in Washington DC, marking a new chapter in China’s “panda diplomacy”. Their arrival signifies a renewed focus on US-China relations ...

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 ...

Months after the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., saw its beloved giant pandas get sent back to China, "panda diplomacy" is set to make a resurgence with a new pair headed to ...

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 ...

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 ...