In 1971 a small group of U.S. table tennis players made history, by traveling to a then-isolated China. The first Americans to legally visit in more than 20 years, they opened up lines of communication that remain vital today, succeeding where diplomats had failed. The people-to-people links they established are being carried on today by a new generation of American and Chinese college students.
Production funding for Your Serve or Mine was provided by the Humpty Dumpty Institute.
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The story of "ping pong diplomacy," and the people-to-people links which grew from it. (56m 46s)
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Production funding for Your Serve or Mine was provided by the Humpty Dumpty Institute.