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Geopolitics

From Mao To Now, How Pandas Became China’s Not-So-Secret Diplomatic Weapon

Photo of two women looking at a giant panda in his enclosure at Adelaide Zoo
Tourists look at a giant panda at Adelaide Zoo, in Australia, on June 1 Zhang Jianhua/Xinhua/ZUMA

China’s Premier Li Qiang has offered to send Australia two new pandas during his visit to Adelaide Zoo, as “friendly messengers of China-Australia relations.” It’s the latest example of China’s enduring and unique “panda diplomacy.”

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Ideas Society

Why China Is So Stingy With Its Cultural Treasures

Display of artworks from the Dunhuang grottoes at the Beijing's National Art Museum of China
Display of artworks from the Dunhuang grottoes at the Beijing's National Art Museum of China gongfu_king

-Commentary- BEIJING — Reports about rich Chinese men snapping up French chateaux for big bucks have been prolific lately. Many Chinese are astonished that these French cultural relics are available to private buyers at all, much less foreign ones. But I believe this represents not so much how open France is but rather how closed […]

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