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However, the political landscape shifted dramatically with the communist revolution in 1949, leading to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. During the subsequent Cold War period, China adopted a more cautious and often adversarial stance toward the West, particularly the United States. As a result, the exchange of pandas became restricted, and by the 1950s, US zoos had no new pandas to replace those that had died decades earlier. For nearly 20 years, the U.S. was without pandas, symbolizing a period of strained relations.