Ping Ping and Fu Shuang to live at Atlanta zoo in Georgia as part of loan deal between Chinese and US governments Two giant pandas from China arrived in Atlanta , Georgia, on Sunday morning as part of an agreement between the Chinese and US governments. While in Washington DC for a three - day summit with Donald Trump , the Chinese president, Xi Jinping , announced that the pandas would arrive in Atlanta in the coming days. The loan of the pandas to the Atlanta zoo was one of the few concrete outcomes of Xi’s state visit with the US president, which saw expressions of goodwill between the leaders, but no fixes to any of the longstanding differences between the two countries. Continue reading...
Two giant pandas arrive in Atlanta from China after Xi-Trump summit
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- Atlanta is getting pandas: China's Xi revives a longtime diplomatic strategy at summit with U.S.
- Pomp over progress in Xi’s US summit with Trump is a win for China
- What did we learn from the Trump-Xi summit?
- Giant pandas arrive in Atlanta as part of 10-year US-China agreement
- ‘Friendship pandas’ arrive in Atlanta, marking US-China relations moment
- CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Spectacle-heavy Trump-Xi summit was more about domestic messaging
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