Chinese premier in Australia promises replacement pandas

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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". Since then the Adelaide Zoo has been their home. Adelaide Zoo to receive replacement pandas The two furry creatures are the only pandas in the Southern Hemisphere and have failed to produce cubs in Australia, including through artificial insemination. Breeding...