Ping-pong diplomacy and US-China relations: the game and the players that changed the course of history

• Judy Bochenski was involved in one of the most astonishing geopolitical games in the world
• Then 15 years old, the American table tennis star’s 1971 trip to China would help end the cold war

..."Right across Main Street from Yen’s Chinese Restaurant, and next door to the post office, sits Paddle Palace: table tennis club and equipment distributor. The building, a former carpet store, melts comfortably into its surroundings and offers no clue to the extraordinary story of its current owner, Judy Hoarfrost."

Please click to read thefull article from Mike Hodgkinson of the South China Morning Post.

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