China sends two pandas to US in soft-power gesture amid Xi visit

China has gifted two pandas to the US, arriving after Xi Jinping's official visit to Washington. The pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shang, will be housed at a zoo in Atlanta, symbolizing 'panda diplomacy' as a soft-power tool. This marks a continuation of China's diplomatic practice, though the loan terms allow for recall, underscoring the conditional nature of the gesture.