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apr 10 Learn More The U.S. Sends Ping-Pong Team to China


How do you mend a contentious relationship with communist China? Well, if you're America, you send your best ping-pong team over, which is precisely what happened on this day in 1971. The American team spent the following week touring the Great Wall, watching ballet, improving Chinese-American affairs, and, of course, playing ping-pong. Lots and lots of ping-pong.

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