It’s the end of an era – the panda diplomacy era – as the couple’s ‘residency’ in the Scottish capital came to an end on ...

China's pandas are not just pandas. They're diplomats. You're friendly to China? You get a panda. You criticise China? You ...

Beijing’s strained relations with the west are less easily mollified by loans of cuddly endangered bears ...

China’s government has gifted and distributed numerous pandas to countries to show their friendship and strengthen their ...

President Xi Jinping of China said his country may keep sending giant pandas to the United States. The National Zoo in Washington sent three of them back to China last week. By Edward Wong ...

Animal diplomacy has been used to strengthen relationships between countries for decades, with the most known exchange ...

Live marked the uncertain future of panda diplomacy in their cold open about President Joe Biden's comments about Xi Jinping.

China’s pandas are not just pandas: they’re diplomats. In recent years China has been hostile toward the West, with the most literal symbol of their displeasure being the withdrawal of their pandas ...

Pandas have been a tool of Chinese diplomacy ever since they arrived in the U.S. 50 years ago. When President Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, first lady Patricia Nixon told Chinese Premier ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping suggested Wednesday China could send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of ...

The playful, waddling bears charmed millions of people at the Edinburgh Zoo of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.