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Panda Diplomacy Shows Thawing US-China Ties as Xi and Trump Meet

Panda diplomacy refers to China's practice of lending giant pandas to foreign nations as a gesture of goodwill. Commentators are using the term as talks of potential panda loans to the US are being read as a sign of warming relations between Washington and Beijing, coinciding with a meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. The story frames the iconic animals as a symbolic barometer of the state of US-China relations.

Why now: A meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump has revived discussion of China sending pandas to the US as a symbolic gesture of thawing ties.

Xi JinpingDonald TrumpChinaUnited Statesgiant pandas

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