Two giant pandas departed Chengdu in southwestern China early Sunday for their new homes in Atlanta as part of an agreement between the Chinese and American governments.
While in Washington for a three-day summit with US President Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that the pandas would arrive in Atlanta in the coming days.
The loan of the pandas to the Atlanta zoo was one of the few concrete outcomes to come out of the state visit, which saw expressions of goodwill between the leaders, but no fixes to any of the long-standing differences between the two countries.
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