China to send giant pandas to Atlanta again

China on Friday announced it will send two giant pandas to Atlanta, in Beijing’s latest efforts of panda diplomacy despite tensions with Washington.

BEIJING — Atlanta will have giant pandas again.

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China on Friday announced it will send two giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta in the U.S., in Beijing’s latest efforts of panda diplomacy despite tensions with Washington, and less than a month before a much-anticipated visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to Beijing.

The China Wildlife Conservation Association said in a statement that male panda Ping Ping and female panda Fu Shuang, from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, will kick off a decade-long conservation cooperation under an agreement it signed with the zoo last year.