Friendship first : witness Xu Yinsheng reviews the milestone China-US ping-pong diplomacy
Huang Lanlan Published: Apr 28, 2021 08:38 PM
American player Glenn Cowan (right) shakes hands with Chinese player Zhuang Zedong(center) after getting off a bus for Chinese players during the 31st World Table Tennis Championships on April 4, 1971 in Nagoya, Japan. Glenn Cowan, who missed a bus for his own team, accidentally boarded a bus for Chinese players, which led to a domino of events that saw the normalization the China-US relationship. File photo: VCG On China s invitation, the US table tennis delegation visited China in April 1971 under a global spotlight, after the two countries had no official contact at all for more than two decades. The Chinese table tennis players paid a return visit to the US the following year.
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