The pair arrived in D.C. — aboard the fittingly nicknamed "Panda Express" — from China back in October. Since then, they could only be glimpsed occasionally on the zoo's social media feed ...

However, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in November ... in Washington on a FedEx Boeing 777 cargo plane called “Panda Express.” The National Zoo signed a 10-year agreement with the Chinese ...

when the first "panda ambassadors" came to the U.S. following a historic visit to China by then-President Richard Nixon. Over the decades, relations between the two superpowers have ebbed and ...