China will send giant pandas to Atlanta again

Atlanta will have giant pandas again. China announced it will send two giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta in Beijing’s latest panda diplomacy effort, despite tensions with Washington, less than a month before a much-anticipated visit by President Trump to Beijing. The China Wildlife Conservation Assn. said in a statement that male panda Ping Ping and female panda Fu Shuang, from the Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding, will kick off a decade-long conservation partnership under an agreement it signed with the zoo last year. The association did not specify the pandas’ departure date but said the U.S. side was…