How giant pandas became China’s furry diplomats
The first pandas were gifted to the USA in the 1970s
The Story · The Times
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Show Notes
The giant panda has become one of China’s diplomatic tools, after a pair were gifted to President Nixon as an act of friendship in the 1970s. But with US-China relations deteriorating - what can pandas tell us about the two superpowers’ modern relationship?
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Guest: Didi Tang, Beijing Correspondent, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: The National Archives, CNN, France 24, CCTV, NBC News, Richard Nixon Foundation, Action News 5, TikTok/@care2petitions, pandavoices.org.
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