Giant pandas to debut at National Zoo in Washington: Here's how to plan your visit Panda diplomacy ... Richard Nixon visits China; pandas come to the U.S. In 1972, U.S. President Richard ...

Friday's debut of new pandas at the National Zoo in D.C. is the latest chapter in a long tale of "panda diplomacy" between China and the rest of the world.

The U.S. and China began to warm to each other throughout the 1970s, with President Richard Nixon's landmark 1972 visit ...

In 1972, then US president Richard Nixon's historic visit to China signalled a major step forward in relations after decades of isolation for Beijing. Both countries recognised the need to ...

What's black, white and back in the nation's capital? Giant pandas, at last. Now, after a requisite quarantine and brief preview period for zoo members, the panda exhibit and its accompanying ...

Chinese Embassy in the UK strongly condemned British Conservative lawmaker Tom Tugendhat’s visit to China ... in the 1972 joint communiqué between China and the UK on the exchange of ...

Building off US President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, Mao was prepared to move forward with plans that would allow for financial investment from foreign capital to penetrate Chinese ...

While in 1972 it could be said in the communiqué that marked President Richard Nixon’s visit to the ailing Chairman ... Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is part of China ...

Giant pandas to debut at National Zoo in Washington: Here's how to plan your visit Here's a ... Richard Nixon visits China; pandas come to the U.S. In 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon visited ...

It was the first time the National Zoo had been without giant pandas since 1972 when the first ... following a historic visit to China by then-President Richard Nixon. Amid tenuous diplomatic ...

China began “panda diplomacy” in the late 1950s, but it was not until 1972 that the first pandas were given as gifts to the US following a visit to Beijing by then President Richard Nixon.