The star of the Beijing Winter Olympics wasn’t an athlete: it was Bing Dwen Dwen, the spacesuit-clad panda mascot. It was deployed to cover the harsher political edges of the games, and was romping around on the ice at the closing gala.
Bing Dwen Dwen is only the latest example of China’s use of ‘panda diplomacy’, so successful over recent decades.
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