Guo said the influence of ping-pong diplomacy continues to resonate today. "The spark lit by a ping-pong ball more than 50 ...

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On December 20, 2025, in Sichuan, China, @Zzl shared a video of a humorous ping pong moment. In the video, one player wears a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stephen Mull, vice provost for global affairs at UVA, discusses the university’s version of ping-pong diplomacy, and the state of China-U.S. people-to-people exchanges. If you follow China-U.S.

LOS ANGELES | Xinhua | Hundreds of Chinese and Americans, including lawmakers, diplomats and world champions, gathered at Los ...

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 ...

On April 6, 1971, history was made when China invited the U.S. table tennis team to play in the Asian country. They were the first Americans that were allowed in China since the communist takeover in ...

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 ...

Ping-pong in space? Sounds awesome. But footage shared by Chinese media of astronaut Deng Qingming whacking a ball around in the country’s Tiangong is frankly very puzzling. The ball always returns to ...