PETALING JAYA: The two giant pandas loaned to Malaysia marked closer diplomatic relations with China, a practice which started centuries ago.
It was reported that “panda diplomacy” was traced back to the seventh century when Chinese Empress Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty gave a pair of pandas to a Japanese emperor as a gesture of goodwill.
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