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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a probationary period of 5 years, China’s table tennis sports officials are allowing Wang Hao, the men’s singles world champion, to date a fellow athlete. From The Guardian: After years of ...

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 ...

Have you ever watched a really good ping pong game on YouTube? The volleys stretch on for minutes at a time; the players so intense. With two new tariff announcements each from the U.S. and Chinese ...

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 ...