The idea of using sports to mend diplomatic rifts has been debated for decades, but history offers compelling proof of its ...

The moment was captured by photographers and quickly made headlines. Cowan, now an unwitting ambassador, expressed a desire ...

There is still a war to end and yet Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin still found time to talk sport during their call on the ...

The China Office’s initial opening date of March 7, 2015, was a nod to UVA’s anniversary of its first classes: March 7, 1825.

Once upon a time, America practiced ping-pong diplomacy to try and improve ties with Mao’s China. Now Donald Trump and ...

Trade between the US and China improved and tensions were eased. This strategy became known as ‘ping pong diplomacy’. These efforts to ‘manage’ the Cold War and to improve relations with ...

Veteran sports director Doug Wilson shares insights to his long career directing a wide variety of sports broadcasts from the Olympic games to figure skating championships to the historic “Ping-Pong ...

From the boycott of the Moscow Olympics in 1980 to the United States’ ping-pong diplomacy with China and the isolation of ...

Trade between the US and China improved and tensions were reduced. This strategy became known as ‘ping pong diplomacy'. Figure caption, Vietnam War Supplies being carried through jungle routes ...