June 13, 2017

"Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman left Beijing for North Korea Tuesday. On the same day, North Korea released a US college student imprisoned there, which boosted Rodman's prestige. Having visited Pyongyang at least five times, Rodman has described his series of trips as 'basketball diplomacy.'

The US table tennis team visited China in 1971, and its effects on reviving Sino-US relations are historically recognized, with the achievements of the trip being dubbed 'Ping-Pong diplomacy.' One year later, then US president Richard Nixon came to China. His historic trip fundamentally changed the global geopolitical pattern and initiated China-US-USSR triangle. Ping-Pong diplomacy was regarded as a classic case of cultural diplomacy."

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