{"id":868759,"date":"2026-10-02T22:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868759\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:58:15","slug":"panda-diplomacy-every-pair-loaned-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868759\/","title":{"rendered":"Panda diplomacy: Every pair loaned from China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panda diplomacy family tree: Here’s every pair loaned to the US by China<\/p>\n

China first gifted giant pandas to the U.S. in 1972. Now, they are on loan to American zoos.<\/p>\n

\"KatrinaNEW YORK \u2014<\/p>\n

Zoo Atlanta has two new residents from China.<\/p>\n

Giant pandas Fu Shuang, a female panda, and Ping Ping, a male panda, arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Sunday aboard the FedEx Panda Express. They are the third pair of giant pandas loaned to the U.S. by China as a form of diplomacy over the past two years.<\/p>\n

These pandas were sent one day after President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met during a state visit. <\/p>\n

China first gifted pandas to the U.S. in 1972 following President Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing. First Lady Patricia Nixon mentioned her fondness<\/a> for giant pandas to Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, and so two giant pandas were gifted to the American people as a form of diplomacy. <\/p>\n

Since then, the Chinese government has been loaning pandas to American zoos in exchange for an annual base fee of $1 million for research and conservation. <\/p>\n

The Get the Facts Data Team went through the reports of the National Zoo, San Diego Zoo, Memphis Zoo and Zoo Atlanta and created a family tree from the giant panda pairs that were loaned to the U.S. This does not include short-term exhibition loans, such as the giant pandas loaned for the 1984 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

Nine giant panda pairs have been brought to the country since 1972, and around 25 cubs have been born on U.S. soil. Of these cubs, eight did not survive. <\/p>\n

Panda cubs are traditionally named around 100 days after birth. Unnamed cubs died before their naming ceremony. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panda diplomacy family tree: Here’s every pair loaned to the US by China China first gifted giant pandas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[366320,331867,550,366317,38357,366321,366318,366315,67938,366323,366322,137028,366316,3504,27342,79,366319,231951,21,5832,201,244143],"class_list":["post-868759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-10-year-residency","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-beijing","tag-china-panda-loan","tag-chinese-government","tag-conservation-research","tag-fedex-panda-express","tag-fu-shuang","tag-giant-pandas","tag-hsing-hsing","tag-ling-ling","tag-panda-diplomacy","tag-ping-ping","tag-richard-nixon","tag-san-diego-zoo","tag-science","tag-september-27","tag-smithsonian-national-zoo","tag-united-states","tag-washington-dc","tag-wildlife","tag-zoo-atlanta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}