Xi gifts giant pandas to U.S., continuing years of "panda diplomacy"

President Trump honored Chinese President Xi Jinping with a state dinner on Thursday. Xi announced a new gift of giant pandas,

on their way to a zoo in Atlanta, part of what Xi called an "envoy of friendship" between the two nations.

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