Diplomacy
Panda Diplomacy Returns to US as Zoo Atlanta Welcomes Two Pandas
Malay Mail · 12 hours ago · Read the Full Story on Malay Mail
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Giant pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang have made their public debut at Zoo Atlanta, where they will spend the next 10 years on loan from China as part of Beijing's panda diplomacy.
- Giant pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang made their public debut at Zoo Atlanta on Friday.
- The pandas arrived from Chengdu in September on a FedEx flight known as the Panda Express.
- The pair are on loan from China and will be hosted at Zoo Atlanta for 10 years.
- Zoo Atlanta renovated its facilities, trained a care team, and secured a local bamboo supply ahead of their arrival.
- Beijing uses its decades-long panda diplomacy program to foster foreign ties.
- Zoo Atlanta previously hosted pandas starting in 1999, but had no pandas since 2024 after previously born cubs returned to China.
- Both Ping Ping and Fu Shuang were born in 2020.
- China gifted its first pair of pandas to Washington in 1972 following President Richard Nixon's visit.
- Beijing recalled two pandas from Japan earlier this year following a diplomatic spat over Taiwan.
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