Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has toured a panda breeding facility in the final stages of an extended state ...

No other animal can make the giant panda’s adorable symbolism – but in China, its diplomatic power has at times been met with nationalist outrage.

Anthony Albanese has wrapped up his six-day tour of China with a visit to its fluffy black-and-white diplomats, brushing off ...

China used to give pandas to strategic allies. Now it loans them out, but it also isn’t afraid to use them as punishment.

Was their stay here always meant to be temporary? Panda diplomacy has a long history. In modern times, the Nationalist government (overthrown by the Communists in 1949) did gift pandas to friendly ...

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 ...

Panda loans can be a ‘bargaining chip’ to make bilateral ties stronger and allow China to show it can be a regional leader, analysts say.

Yun Chua, the male panda, is the son of Zhen Zhen, who was born at San Diego Zoo in 2007. The zoo has not had residing pandas since 2019, after a 27-year-old female giant panda, Bai Yun, and her 6 ...

Panda diplomacy is part of what is called " soft power," how nations use their culture or heritage to influence another country's foreign policy. Pandas are soft and cuddly, and have what it takes ...

WHAT'S THE PANDA DIPLOMACY POLICY? Since 1984, China stopped gifting pandas due to their dwindling numbers and began loaning them to overseas zoos instead, often in pairs for 10 years, with an ...