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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MATT BEVAN, HOST: In early November there was a sad farewell at the US National Zoo in Washington DC — ...

Last week, the three giant pandas at the National Zoo, in Washington, D.C., left their habitat, for the long journey to China. Tian Tian, the laid-back papa bear often lounging with bamboo crumbs ...

China's pandas are not just pandas. They're diplomats. You're friendly to China? You get pandas. You criticise China? You get no pandas. In recent years China has been increasingly hostile toward the ...

Three giant pandas left their enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC, and departed by plane back to ...

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