China-U.S. 'Ping pong diplomacy' remembered in Nagoya

China-U.S. 'Ping pong diplomacy' remembered in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Xu Yinsheng (L) from China, former president of the International Table Tennis Federation, and Atsushi Goto, head of the Aichi Table Tennis Association, shake hands at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, central Japan, on May 7, 2014. The gym was a venue at the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships where an encounter between Chinese and U.S. teams led to the start of talks on establishing diplomatic relations between Beijing and Washington.

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