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Chinese panda diplomacy started in the 1940s ... China doesn't say, this is a symbol of bad relations. Some other excuse is always given. Susan Brownell is distinguished professor of anthropology ...

Panda diplomacy between the US and China dates back more than 50 years ... end of this year.Pandas have become one of the unofficial symbols of the nation’s capital, dating back to 1972 when ...