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Panda Diplomacy Returns to the Spotlight in America
Original: Coming to America - pandas and international politics at a zoo
Pandas are heading to the United States again, and the story is about more than a zoo attraction. Analysts frame China's loans of giant pandas as a long-standing tool of soft power and diplomacy, with their arrival or withdrawal often read as a signal of warming or cooling relations between Washington and Beijing.
Why now: New panda transfers to the US are being read as a barometer of US-China relations.
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- Coming to America - pandas and international politics at a zoo · Northeastern Global News
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