Judy Hoarfrost, a member of the famed U.S. "Ping Pong Diplomacy" team in the 1970s, tells PEOPLE sports can help heal geopolitical tensions A boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing is not the ...

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If you follow China-U.S. relations, you’ve probably heard of “ping-pong diplomacy” – referring to the historic trip by an American table tennis team to China in April 1971. That set the stage for an ...

Sports has always been a great conversation starter. Forty-five years ago it was a series of tabletop tennis exhibitions that helped change the course of Sino-American relations. Known as “ping-pong ...

A new phase of ping-pong diplomacy is quietly beginning over China’s strategic soft-power role in the Middle East. Once flights become available, 11-year-old Syrian table tennis star Hend Zaza will ...

BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) -- It has been half a century since China invited the U.S. table tennis team for a historic visit, and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy" still has profound implications in an ...

Half a century ago, a group of American table tennis players walked across a bridge near Hong Kong into mainland China, and an astonished world watched in disbelief. Over the course of a week, the ...

The best table tennis players in the world descended upon Japan in March of 1971, all looking for championships. Shortly after the tournament ended in April, the eyes of the world shifted to the ...

Have you ever watched a really good ping pong game on YouTube? The volleys stretch on for minutes at a time; the players so intense. With two new tariff announcements each from the U.S. and Chinese ...

Chinese animation firm Mili Pictures has opened a division in Los Angeles. The unit is headed by Bill Borden, a US producer with credits including “High School Musical,” “Kung Fu Hustle” and “Mission: ...