On April 6, 1971, history was made when China invited the U.S. table tennis team to play in the Asian country. They were the first Americans that were allowed in China since the communist takeover in ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Ping-Pong diplomacy. That's when the U.S. table tennis team went to China for exhibition games at the height of the Cold War. Their trip changed history. But half a ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 10, 1971, the U.S. table tennis team arrived in China at the invitation of the communist government for a ...

Fifty years ago, the simple game of table tennis helped mend the frayed relationship between China and the U.S. Today, the game that gave rise to “ping pong diplomacy” is still played by millions in ...

Stephen Mull, vice provost for global affairs at UVA, discusses the university’s version of ping-pong diplomacy, and the state of China-U.S. people-to-people exchanges. If you follow China-U.S.

Leland Lazarus, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer, is the associate director for national security at Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy. Videos of ...

“It’s got all the excitement of any sport,” he said. “It’s fast. There’s athleticism. There’s excitement. People love watching it.” Choi is an avid ping-pong player. He hopes having a major league ...

It is not the U-turn in foreign policy that Ronald Reagan made with the Soviet Union in his second term. It is more like a skid on an icy road: The Bush administration has lurched from insisting on ...

Never mind high-pressure peace talks that fail amid the looming threat of warfare. Try wrestling or ping-pong diplomacy instead. For the first time in years, North Korean and South Korean officials ...