Basketball player Dennis Rodman made the headlines this week when he compared his recent trip to North Korea with the 'Ping-Pong Diplomacy' of 1971 , when the U.S. table tennis team visited China, ...

They were an unlikely group of trailblazing diplomats, including the 15-year-old who knew only that China was a big country filled with communists — and really good pingpong players. Tossed into the ...

Fifty-five years after United States table tennis players made a historic visit to China, the spirit of Ping-Pong Diplomacy ...

Fifty years ago, the simple game of table tennis helped mend the frayed relationship between China and the U.S. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

It's been 50 years since the U.S. and China engaged in "Ping Pong Diplomacy" - opening dialogue by having teams compete in the table top games. Today marks the 50th anniversary of Ping-Pong diplomacy.

Olga Soltesz was 17 when she went to Beijing for a game of table tennis in 1971. It was her first trip out of the US, and she ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The best table tennis players in the world descended upon Japan in March of 1971, all looking for championships. Shortly ...

If you follow China-U.S. relations, you’ve probably heard of “ping-pong diplomacy” – referring to the historic trip by an American table tennis team to China in April 1971. That set the stage for an ...

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 ...

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 ...