Ping-Pong Diplomacy Griffin Nicholas
Ping-Pong Diplomacy Griffin Nicholas The spring of 1971 heralded the greatest geopolitical realignment in a generation. The Western press delighted in the absurdity of the moment and branded it…
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Ping-Pong Diplomacy Griffin Nicholas
The spring of 1971 heralded the greatest geopolitical realignment in a generation. The Western press delighted in the absurdity of the moment and branded it "Ping-Pong Diplomacy." But for the Chinese, Ping-Pong was always political, a strategic cog in Mao Zedong's foreign policy. After twenty-two years of antagonism, China and the United States suddenly moved toward a detente--achieved not by politicians but by Ping-Pong players.
Griffin tells the strange and tragic story of how the game was manipulated at the highest levels; how the Chinese government helped cover up the death of 36 million peasants by holding the Nicholas Griffin proves that the organized game, from its first breath, was tied to Communism thanks to its founder, Ivor Montagu, son of a wealthy English baron and spy for the Soviet Union.Ping-Pong Diplomacy traces a crucial inter-section of sports and society.
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