China’s successful rebranding of the giant panda has created an unexpected challenge for Beijing, as it aims to balance its use of the animals for soft power abroad against the demands of an adoring ...

HONG KONG — China will send a new ... in a boost for what is known as “panda diplomacy” after U.S. zoos were left with almost none of the beloved black-and-white bears amid a deterioration ...

As the controversy snowballed, the zoo confirmed that dye was indeed used on the animals but insisted it was not toxic.

Pandas, those roly-poly, black-and-white stuffies ... when the first "panda ambassadors" came to the U.S. following a historic visit to China by then-President Richard Nixon.

Some, including British naturalist Chris Packham, have argued that the black and white bears aren ... that the financial benefit of panda conservation in China was 10 to 27 times higher than ...

Elena Songster, a historian and author of “Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China’s Modern Icon.” Unique, lovable and free of historical baggage, the black and white bear ...

Elena Songster, a historian and author of “Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China’s Modern Icon.” Unique, lovable and free of historical baggage, the black and white bear was deemed ...