Much of the reporting about both China and the region have now fallen victim to the same worldwide trend: The news is utterly ...

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

Pandas have fueled the Japanese town of Shirahama’s tourism industry for decades. But the town’s zoo has to send its last ...

With the latest panda additions to the San Diego Zoo, 'panda diplomacy' is back in the vernacular. Here's what it means and why it's so important.

It was late June when the pandas left the park in Wakayama prefecture, heading home to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China's southwestern province of Sichuan. About a week ...

Friday's debut of new pandas at the National Zoo in D.C. is the latest chapter in a long tale of "panda diplomacy" between China and the rest of the world.

China’s giant panda loan program has long been a tool of diplomacy, but its significance for species conservation has proved important, too ...

Panda diplomacy — China's practice of loaning its pandas to foreign zoos to build ties with other countries — is believed to have started in the 7th century, when the Tang Dynasty Empress Wu ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...