Ahead of this year’s World Cup, China made its first-ever loan of pandas to a Middle Eastern nation. But what is by now a well-oiled machine began in far more haphazard fashion.

[Sixth Tone] The wild and wooly history of China’s panda diplomacy

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China Stories from the Sinica Network on The China Project brings you audio narration of the best articles and op-eds appearing in Sixth Tone, Caixin Global, Week in China, The World of Chinese, and of course The China Project. Subscribe to the podcast and you can listen to features on the go, with narrators who won’t butcher the pronunciation of Chinese names and words.

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