Panda diplomacy is China’s long-held practice of using giant pandas to cultivate global friendship and cooperation. Panda diplomacy is believed to have started during the Tang dynasty (618–907 ce) when Empress Wuhou sent pandas to Japan as diplomatic gifts. Perhaps the most famous example of panda diplomacy involved the gift of two pandas to the United States in 1972 when first lady Pat Nixon expressed her delight with the animals while on a historic visit to China with her husband, Pres. Richard Nixon.
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