How Ping‑Pong Diplomacy Thawed the Cold War | HISTORY
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Find out how table tennis became an unlikely tool in international relations.
How Ping-Pong Diplomacy Thawed the Cold War | HISTORY By: Evan Andrews Cold War How Ping-Pong Diplomacy Thawed the Cold War Find out how table tennis became an unlikely tool in international relations. EA Evan Andrews Getty Images / Frank Fischbeck Published: April 08, 2016 Last Updated: May 28, 2025 In the years since Mao Zedong ’s communist revolution in 1949, relations between the People’s Republic of China and the United States had been clouded by Cold War propaganda, trade embargos and diplomatic silence. The two superpowers had met on the battlefield during the Korean War , but no offici
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