CSPAN2 Book Discussion On Ping-Pong Diplomacy January 26, 2014
Radio and cspan. Org. [applause] thank you for coming out tonight. Its a friday night, and its miami, and plenty of time to get down to the beach. So ill see you there. Pingpong diplomacy, as mitch just said, an extraordinary moment in 1971 when this deeply engrained antagonism that existed for 22 years between china and the United States suddenly fractured, and it all seemed to happen in the blink of an eye. And the story goes it was these pingpong players who started the process, rather than politicians, and the press loved it because it was the spontaneity and it was almost too good to be t...