The Cold War is entering its 26th year with no end ... and tours in ten cities around the United States. The era of Ping-Pong diplomacy had begun 12 months earlier when the American team—in ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Ping-Pong diplomacy. That's when the U.S. table tennis team went to China for exhibition games at the height of the Cold War. Their trip changed history.

Lillieroos believes the city’s passion for the game started in 1971 and the era of so called “ping-pong” diplomacy ... have been an international Cold War incident. But players made friends ...

Their "face-off" was followed by friendly matches between the visiting Peking University table tennis team and US players on Wednesday to mark the 52nd anniversary of Ping-Pong Diplomacy ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) This week, two of the original members of Australia's 1971“ping-pong diplomacy” team ... of the most successful of the Cold War period, with long-term benefits.

It was dubbed ping-pong diplomacy. There is no suggestion such a thaw in the currently strained relations between the two nations is about to happen again. But it is table tennis that has been ...

At the height of the Cold War, an exchange of table tennis players ... The then unusual “ping-pong diplomacy” as it came to be known thawed frosty ties between the two nations after more ...