[Sixth Tone] The wild and wooly history of China’s panda diplomacy

<p>Ahead of this year’s World Cup, China made its first-ever loan of pandas to a Middle Eastern nation. But what is by now a well-oiled machine began in far more haphazard fashion.</p><p><a href="https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1011656/the-wild-and-wooly-history-of-chinas-panda-diplomacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Click here to read the article by Liu&nbsp;Xiaochen.</a></p><p>Narrated by Kim Dalrymple.</p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.</p>