The era of Ping-Pong diplomacy had begun 12 months earlier when the American team—in Nagoya, Japan, for the World Table Tennis Championship—got a surprise invitation from their Chinese ...

In this 1961 photo from China's Xinhua News Agency, Zhuang Zedong, right, competes in the men's team finals of the 26th World Table Tennis Championship in Beijing. (Zhang Hesong/AP) The date ...

It's been 50 years since the U.S. and China engaged in "Ping Pong Diplomacy" - opening dialogue by having teams compete in the table top games. Today marks the 50th anniversary of Ping-Pong diplomacy.

This exchange, mirroring the historic "Ping-Pong Diplomacy" of the early 1970s, serves as a reminder of the unique role that sport, particularly table tennis, has played in bridging the divide ...

Lillieroos believes the city’s passion for the game started in 1971 and the era of so called “ping-pong” diplomacy. Back in 1971, the United States hadn’t had diplomatic relations with ...

Subscribe to our newsletter to keep up with the latest at and around USC. Sports diplomacy has been in action for decades. In 1971, “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” ushered nine United States table tennis ...

Alternating between the pivotal 1971 Ping-Pong Diplomacy - where a simple game of table tennis thawed the icy relations between the U.S. and China during the Cold War - and the present-day ...

Interestingly, it was through table tennis that the over 20 years diplomatic and economic isolation of the US and China thawed - "ping-pong diplomacy", as it became called. A table tennis exchange ...

The origins of ping pong can be traced back almost 150 years to Victorian Britain, but these days table tennis is virtually ignored in the country that invented the game. According to the latest ...