Talk:Ping-pong diplomacy

message: "the first Americans to set foot in the PRC capital since Mao's communist party had come to power 22 years earlier"
Theres something wrong with this - shouldnt it say 'officially sent' or something like that - there might have been American born Chinese or random tourists or whatever. You cant really be sure there wasnt a single american in beijing in 22 years -- Astrokey44|talk 02:25, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: No Americans in 22 years

message: Besides the other comment about this, the article mentions Edgard Snow being in Beijing in 1970, so that was one American there before the athletes.
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz (talk) 22:36, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: No American in 22 years

message: I slightly revised the wording in response to the comments and added a little, but I don't think I changed the meaning of anything. I might track down another reference to Ping Pong Diplomacy on the Chinese side and add it later. ch (talk) 04:46, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Slight revisions

message: There was a programme on BBC Radio 4 yesterday that might be of interest to any editors here: The Ping Pong Diplomats. It is available on the Listen Again facility until Friday 27th June - you can get it here.  I must confess that I was only half listening to it (I was driving at the time) so was unable to make notes and references for clean-up.  However, I thought I would post the link here in case any editors who are far more studious than I would like to use it as a point of reference. StephenBuxton (talk) 11:33, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The Ping Pong Diplomats

message: "The U.S. Table Tennis team was in china in 1971 for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship on April 6th when they received an invitation to visit China", what? How could they get a invitation to visit China while they were already IN China? 96.25.248.210 (talk) 03:49, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording 

message: I think that it should be added that the events described in the article were portrayed in the film Forrest Gump.--46.120.7.11 (talk) 13:03, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forrest Gump 

message: I can't find the quote by the American ping-pong player in the source article. Does anyone have another source for it? Wingedbeaver (talk) 02:07, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote source? 

message: Could someone please find and add this picture to the article? Thank you. -Devin Ronis (d.s.ronis) (talk) 03:13, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture of Glenn Cowan and Zhuang Zedong in Japan 

message: The "Nixon's Visit" section is not actually about his visit itself, but about the effect of his visit on Ping-pong diplomacy. I propose that the subheading title be changed to "Aftermath of Nixon's Visit." Sandtalon (talk) 07:30, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, after looking at it further, the section "Result" has the information on Nixon's visit that the preceding section could use. I now propose that the two sections be combined into a single "Nixon's Visit and its Aftermath" section. Sandtalon (talk) 07:35, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

text: I'll take a look at this. I will change the word "aftermath" to something with more neutral connotations. 184.67.135.194 (talk) 23:15, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Nixon's Visit" Subheading 

message: Where is it?  Surely this event, which took place on April 19, 1972, belongs in this entry.  I attended the exhibition match as a 14-year-old; many years later, one of the players on that night's U.S. team, George "The Chief" Braithwaite, briefly become my coach at the Manhattan TT Club, which was the thrill of a lifetime.  Here's a story on that night's events.  Please revise to add it in.  https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/20/archives/chinas-table-tennis-team-visits-city-plays-at-un-chinese-team-pays.html 2600:1702:37B0:5200:E431:D7BB:D964:44E1 (talk) 16:33, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese team's visit to the United Nations?