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10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy
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Publish Date: 2018-04-09 21:05:30
Description: The United States table tennis team heralded the era of ‘ping pong diplomacy’ by becoming the first official American delegation to visit China in 20 years. Relations between America and China had soured in the aftermath of the Communist Revolution, and grew worse as a result of the Korean War in which the countries fought on opposing sides. Relations were so poor that, by the time the two countries travelled to Nagoya in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championships in 1971, they had no diplomatic or economic relationship. Richard Nixon intended to bring China in from the cold when ...
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