China's restart of panda diplomacy: Zoos in the USA can hope for new bears - and Munich too?. Only four pandas still live in the Atlanta Zoo and will fly to China in 2024.
Panda diplomacy began more than 50 years ago when China gave then-US President Richard Nixon two bears. Since 1982, Beijing has only loaned the pandas to international zoos. The Chinese authorities are also negotiating new pandas with the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington and Vienna's Schönbrunn Zoo.