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Since giving a pair of giant pandas to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in 1972 following President Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing, China has used panda loans as a means of projecting a harmless and friendly image globally. But it was always an act—and foreign audiences are no longer falling for it.

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