Young generation called on to carry torch of 1971 Ping-Pong Diplomacy chinadaily.com.cn - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chinadaily.com.cn Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
China-U.S. relations didn t come easily in the past five decades, with the friendship set to play a positive role in building a peaceful world, said Zheng Minzhi, a former Chinese Ping Pong player and witness of Ping-Pong Diplomacy.
Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Shanghai
Communique in which the United States and China pledged to work
towards the normalisation of relations following the strange but
effective table tennis initiative that has come to be known as Ping
Pong Diplomacy.
China-US Diplomacy Turns Aggressive theepochtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theepochtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the ping-pong diplomacy, Chinese and US veteran table tennis players recalled the memories of the visit by US table tennis players to China in 1971 and looked back to how a bouncing ball helped embark in a historical thaw among two powers that had almost zero contact during the Cold War.