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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.

Ping-Pong Diplomacy Blending statecraft and sport, table tennis matches between American and Chinese athletes set the stage for Nixon’s breakthrough with the People’s Republic.

Nicholas Griffin talked about his book, [Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World], in which he examines China's use of the game of ping-pong to recast their ...

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 ...

In 1971, 'ping pong diplomacy' introduced the United States to communist China. Nicholas Griffin, author of a book by the same name, joins Bill Littlefield to discuss how ping pong changed the world.

As some call for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, more sports interaction could be helpful, like "Ping Pong Diplomacy" 50 years ago that helped thaw part of the Cold War.

Judy Bochenski, a member of the famed U.S. "Ping Pong Diplomacy" team in the 1970s, tells PEOPLE sports can help heal geopolitical tensions ...

Ping-Pong Diplomacy. Published Feb 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 4:36 PM EST. By Newsweek Staff . ... We played our Ping-Pong matches in an 18,000-person stadium, ...

Ping Pong Diplomacy Linda Wertheimer talks to Tim Boggan, historian for the United States Table Tennis Association. Boggan was a member of the U.S. table tennis team that made the historic visit ...