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Ping-pong diplomacy

by Nicholas Griffin

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Traces the story of how an aristocratic British spy circumvented more than 20 years of antagonistic foreign policy between China and the United States to further a fateful Communist agenda during the World Table Tennis Championships, revealing how players were tortured and murdered throughout the Cultural Revolution.

Table tennisForeign relationsInternational relationsHistoryModern20th CenturyPOLITICAL SCIENCEGovernmentInternationalGeneralDiplomatic relationsUnited states, foreign relations, china