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For Cow, his first encounter with a panda picture left him mesmerized by their charm. Despite limited access to media and the scarcity of television technology in China during the 1970s, the image of pandas still managed to captivate the world. This fascination was harnessed diplomatically when, in 1972, China agreed to send pandas to the U.S. Capitol, marking the beginning of what would become decades of "panda diplomacy."