Pandas have fueled the Japanese town of Shirahama’s tourism industry for decades. But the town’s zoo has to send its last four bears to China ahead of an expiring lease, plunging the future of Japan’s ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...