THE TRUMP-XI SUMMIT PRODUCED TWO PANDAS AND NOT MUCH ELSE

Ping Ping and Fu Shuang touched down at Hartsfield-Jackson on Sunday morning aboard a dedicated FedEx "Panda Express" Boeing 777. Both bears were born in 2020 at the Chengdu Research Base, both are staying 10 years, and both got a better flight than anyone reading this. The loan is the marquee result of last week's three-day Washington summit. Xi announced the arrival timeline Thursday at the White House, and outlets covering the talks noted no fixes on trade, AI, Taiwan or the war with Iran. Al Jazeera called it no major policy breakthroughs. The White House came out of the same room promoting an agreed dialogue on superintelligence, which is two governments scheduling a future meeting about a thing neither one controls. The panda paperwork was finished back in April. Xi just sat on the date until he had a podium and a camera. Zoo CEO Raymond B. King called it "a thrilling day for Zoo Atlanta," then the zoo clarified that nobody gets to see them. The pandas go into about a month of quarantine in a biosecure section of the new panda complex, with no public debut date announced. Atlanta is now one of three US zoos with pandas, after the previous 25-year run ended in 2024 and the bears all went home.

Why you should give a shit: Pandas are the only piece of US-China relations anybody was willing to sign a 10-year term on, which should tell you exactly how solid the rest of it is.