As some call for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, more sports interaction could be helpful, like "Ping Pong Diplomacy" 50 years ago that helped thaw part of the Cold War.

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And the ping-pong team’s tour of the U.S., with extensive Chinese TV pictures of warm, personal engagements between Chinese and Americans, further softened anti-American feelings.

But a Chinese ping-pong player's chance meeting with an American player on a bus got the ball rolling for formal Chinese-US diplomatic ties. It started at a 1971 tournament in Japan.

In 1971, a hippie, a dental hygienist and a 15-year-old helped open China with ping pong. Fifty years ago, U.S. ping pong players helped thaw the Cold War.

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Zhuang Zedong, a former Chinese table tennis player known for his participation in Sino-U.S. Ping-Pong Diplomacy in the 1970s, died at the age of 73 in Beijing on Feb. 10, 2013. [Xinhua] ...

Chinese ping pong player Zhang Yining plays in the Chinese Women's Table Tennis Team's round robin match in Zhongshan city, Guangdong Province, Feb.8, 2007. Zhang was ranked 2nd after the first ...