Nicholas Griffin "Ping Pong Diplomacy"
January 18, 2014
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as posted by the channelThe seemingly casual invitation in 1971 from the Chinese to the American table-tennis team may in fact have been part of a carefully planned strategy by the Chinese for rapprochement with the West. Griffin's investigation of the role ping pong played in international relations is a true thriller, from the way China used the game to distract attention from famine and repression to the fact that the game was brought to the Chinese by a British spy for the Communists. (Scribner)
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