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Explainer: What Exactly Is Panda Diplomacy?
Original: What Exactly Is "Panda Diplomacy"?
China's long-standing practice of gifting or lending giant pandas to foreign countries, known as panda diplomacy, is being explained to audiences following renewed attention. The practice dates to the 1950s and is used as a tool of soft power, with loans often signalling warm bilateral relations. Recently returned pandas and new loans to countries like the United States have kept the topic in the news.
Why now: Recent panda loans and returns between China and other countries have renewed public interest in how the animals are used in diplomacy.
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- What Exactly Is "Panda Diplomacy"? · The World from A to Z with Carl Azuz · 43.9K
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