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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Owen Scott

Meet Ping Ping and Fu Shuang – the two pandas loaned to the US by China

Two giant pandas have arrived in Atlanta – having traveled thousands of miles from Chengdu, China.

​The two bears, a six-year-old male named Ping Ping and a five-year-old female named Fu Shuang, arrived as part of what has long been referred to as “Panda diplomacy” - the practice of loaning pandas as a tool for international relations.

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