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International Table Tennis Federation 10 Apr 2021
Now 50 years ago to the day, on Saturday 10th April 1971, following the conclusion of the World Championships in Nagoya, the United States team and accompanying journalists arrived in Beijing, the first American delegation to visit the city since 1949.
People s Republic of China Premier, Zhou Enlai, meets the visiting US ping-pong delegation in 1971.
It sparked “Ping Pong Diplomacy”; the result an era of understanding and co-operation, a quite unique happening from which we should learn and most importantly a lesson for the future. Thus, with the concept in mind, the Ping Pong Diplomacy (PPD) Task Force has been created.