Xi had announced at a dinner with business leaders on Wednesday that he was prepared to deploy a new set of furry 'envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American people.'
Biden had finished his remarks about responsible competition with China and stopped to answer a reporter's question.
The return of panda diplomacy might have been the most concrete sign yet that war is neither imminent nor inevitable between the world's two leading powers.
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