{"id":60259,"date":"2023-12-01T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T11:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/01\/panda-diplomacy-exit-from-edinburgh-zoo-may-signal-end-of-era"},"modified":"2023-12-01T20:16:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T11:16:49","slug":"exit-from-edinburgh-zoo-may-signal-end-to-era-of-chinas-panda-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60259","title":{"rendered":"Exit from Edinburgh zoo may signal end to era of China\u2019s panda diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s strained relations with the west are less easily mollified by loans of  cuddly endangered bears<\/p>\n<p>As the UK\u2019s only giant pandas leave Edinburgh zoo , returning to their native country after a 12-year sojourn away from China, the era of panda diplomacy also looks to be coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Tian Tian and Yang Guang will board the panda express back to Sichuan less than a month after three giant pandas left the Smithsonian national zoo in Washington DC, ending the zoo\u2019s five-decade panda programme.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/01\/panda-diplomacy-exit-from-edinburgh-zoo-may-signal-end-of-era\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing\u2019s strained relations with the west are less easily mollified by loans of  cuddly endangered bearsAs the UK\u2019s only giant pandas leave Edinburgh zoo , returning to their native country after a 12-year sojourn away from China, the era of panda dip&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4053,"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":[265,41,50,3026,319,561,52,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-edinburgh","category-foreign-policy","category-scotland","category-uk-news","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60259","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\/4053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60260,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60259\/revisions\/60260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}