In 2023 China announced it would take back all pandas in U.S. zoos, but later in that year a new diplomatic deal was brokered to allow for four pandas to return to the United States, with two going to the zoo in San Diego and two going to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. In 2026, two additional pandas landed in Atlanta at the same time Xi Jinping was meeting with U.S. Pres. Donald Trump in Washington. Xi called the panda and “envoy of friendship” between the two countries. Ping Ping and Fu Shuang will be on loan from China to the Atlanta Zoo for 10 years.
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