China has long been sending the rare members of the bear family to nations overseas as a goodwill gesture meant to build ties in a practice dubbed “panda diplomacy”. In 1972, Beijing ...

Pandas have become a symbol of diplomacy for China Only four of the iconic bears are currently in the ... our cooperation with the United States on panda conservation, and do our best to meet ...

Social media users accused the zoo of mistreating the bear and blamed it for the earlier death of her mate Le Le, despite denials from zoo officials and Chinese panda experts. Even as China ...

Tuan Tuan was gifted during a period of warmer relations between China and Taiwan A giant panda gifted by China ... The 18-year-old bear's condition became "irreversible" and he could no longer ...

As dead bears lost some allure, plans shifted to getting a live panda out of China. In December 1936 a wild cub named Su-Lin left Shanghai by ship in a wicker basket carried by Ruth Harkness ...

China cracked down on rumors that a Washington ... Police in Sichuan accused two people of spreading false information that the bears, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, were mistreated at the National ...

Those losses were “media disasters for China,” Wildt says. But each led scientists to “try to think more like a panda, to understand what the bears truly need” and refine training and ...

WASHINGTON--China’s panda diplomacy ... The ultimate goal, researchers say, is to help the bears return to the wild and survive, and a larger captive-bred panda population is the foundation ...