Chinese premier in Australia promises replacement pandas

China will provide two new giant pandas to Australia’s Adelaide Zoo to replace a popular pair that returns to China later this year, visiting Premier Li Qiang said on Sunday.

The China-born giant pandas, Wang Wang and Fu Ni, were loaned to Australia in 2009 in a global preservation scheme that also serves as a tool of Beijing’s “panda diplomacy”.…

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