IT was an unlikely diplomatic tool in the Cold War: paddles and ping pong balls and nine giddy United States table tennis players in a country Americans hadn't seen for decades. Yet the week of table tennis exhibition... ...full story at Shanghai Daily
from Shanghai Daily on Mon, Jun 09 2008
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| 04 Jul 08 |
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Chinese table tennis »
YouTube video Though table tennis has its origins in England as an after-dinner amusement for upper-class Victorians in the 1880s, the last couple of decades China dominates in Ping Pong. As these exhibition players are happy to demonstrate. |
| 07 Jan 09 |
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"Ping pong diplomacy" celebrated as China, U.S. play ball » People's Daily They are not common diplomatic tools: several paddles, a few ping pong balls and some table tennis players from China and the United States. But the fact that nine American table tennis players were invited to Beijing for exhibition games with... |
| 07 Jan 09 |
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Ping-pong diplomats look back » NBC World Blog China this month is celebrating the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties with the U.S. Relations were established after the legendary "ping pong" diplomacy that began in 1971, when the U.S. national table tennis team was invited to play in... |
| 01 Jul 08 |
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Ping Pong Diplomacy Revisited » China Beat With “Ping Pong Diplomacy” back in the news recently, thanks to a rematch between Chinese and American table tennis players that made headlines on both sides of the Pacific, China Beat asked historian Xu Guoqi to write a short piece for us... |
| 13 Jun 08 |
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Rematch held to commemorate ping-pong diplomacyRematch held to commemorate ping-pong diplomacy » People's Daily Chinese and American ping-pong players held a rematch on Thursday to commemorate the ping-pong diplomacy that saw Sino-U.S. relations normalized. In the rematch held at the Nixon presidential library in Yorba Linda, near Los Angeles ... |
| 25 May 09 |
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Ping Pong Politics: Olympic Pair To Become China Gov’t Officials? » CN Reviews Marrying sports into politics, Olympic table-tennis champions Deng Yaping & Wang Nan are said to entering politics full time through the Communist Youth League.Post from: CN Reviews Ping Pong Politics: Olympic Pair To Become China Gov’t... |
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