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© 2021 AFPHow table tennis changed the world, 50 years on
By Peter STEBBINGS SHANGHAI©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Speed
So Glenn Cowan started all this trouble that we're now in with China! Had we let China stay in its bike riding isolated self, no one would've invested and helped this country economically and you know how they are now. Just kidding. This is a cool bit of historical trivia as to why it was called ping pong diplomacy.
Legrande
This article will be ignored by most of the rabid anti-China JT readers.
Mr Kipling
And why not thank the British for inventing table tennis in the first place or none of this would have happened.