This gesture was followed by another panda gift in 1959 and five more pandas to North Korea between 1965 and 1980. A significant moment in panda diplomacy occurred in 1972 when China presented two ...

Katyusha, Russia's first giant panda cub born at Moscow Zoo, received a chair and a wooden horse as new gifts. Katyusha's father and mother are Ru Yi and Ding Ding, which were sent to Russia in ...