If you follow China-U.S. relations, you’ve probably heard of “ping-pong diplomacy” – referring to the historic trip by an American table tennis team to China in April 1971. That set the stage for an ...

On April 6, 1971, history was made when China invited the U.S. table tennis team to play in the Asian country. They were the first Americans that were allowed in China since the communist takeover in ...

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games will welcome back the fastest sport played on a tabletop: table tennis. Have you called it ping-pong before? Excusez-Moi, but that is an Olympic faux pas. The sport is ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Zhuang Zedong is highly unlikely to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in August 2008, but there was a time when he would have been the natural ...

China has replaced the head coach of its women's table tennis team at the world championships in Germany following a gambling debt scandal that sparked a social media frenzy back home. Kong Linghui, ...