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.

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.

Caroline Chen. Bei Bei, a male giant panda, born in Smithsonian's National Zoo in the U.S. in 2015 and returned to China in 2019, eats bamboo at the Bifengxia Panda Base of the China Conservation ...

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 ...

Panda diplomacy has been a small bright spot in an otherwise darkened landscape. Last June, China sent the San Diego Zoo the first pair of pandas to enter America in 21 years.

Chinese panda diplomacy started in the 1940s, a way for China to bolster its image with the wider world and to help conservation efforts. In the 1970s, ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- China's "panda diplomacy" is drawing renewed attention with Japan's first zero giant panda moment in over ...

Panda diplomacy began in 1972 under then-President Richard Nixon. Shapiro said the arrival of the two new pandas comes as relations between the U.S. and China have grown fraught.

Panda diplomacy resumes: A pair of bears arrive at the National Zoo . Bao Li, a 3-year-old male, and Qing Bao, a 3-year-old female, are the latest bears to be sent to the U.S. by China.

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

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 ...