{"id":25500,"date":"2020-12-08T12:36:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T03:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/trump-fails-to-disrupt-panda-diplomacy-as-chinas-famed-bears-remain-at-us-zoo"},"modified":"2020-12-08T12:36:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T03:36:25","slug":"trump-fails-to-disrupt-panda-diplomacy-as-chinas-famed-bears-remain-at-us-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25500","title":{"rendered":"Trump fails to disrupt &#8216;panda diplomacy&#8217; as China&#8217;s famed bears remain at US zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian national zoo\u2019s three giant pandas will stay in Washington for another three years, upholding a decades-long tradition<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump may have done his best to disrupt Washington\u2019s relations with Beijing, but at least Americans will still be able to enjoy the original bonus of more open links with China: giant pandas.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since Richard Nixon welcomed the gift of the animals when he \u201copened up\u201d China in the early 70s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/chinas-choice\/2014\/feb\/27\/china-panda-diplomacy\">panda diplomacy<\/a> has loomed large in relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/trump-fails-to-disrupt-panda-diplomacy-as-chinas-famed-bears-remain-at-us-zoo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian national zoo\u2019s three giant pandas will stay in Washington for another three years, upholding a decades-long traditionDonald Trump may have done his best to disrupt Washington\u2019s relations with Beijing, but at least Americans will still b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,50,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-china","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25501,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions\/25501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}