China resumes panda diplomacy with US

Two bears are en route to the San Diego Zoo as part of a conservation effort

A pair of giant pandas from China are heading to the US, in the first such move for more than two decades. President Xi Jinping suggested sending the iconic animals to the San Diego Zoo as "envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples."

The two pandas, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, left Bifengxia Giant Pa