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 ...

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If you follow China-U.S. relations, you’ve probably heard of “ping-pong diplomacy” – referring to the historic trip by an American table tennis team to China in April 1971. That set the stage for an ...

Apparently the need to play games never goes away. Take, for example, Chinese astronaut Chen Dong. With members of the Chinese national table tennis team watching him on the Tiangong 2 space station ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sports has always been a great conversation starter. Forty-five years ago it was a series of tabletop tennis exhibitions that helped change the course of Sino-American relations. Known as “ping-pong ...

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 ...

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 ...