On Dec. 5, Macron tapped into this legacy when he visited the venue of the 2025 ITTF Mixed Team World Cup and participated in an impromptu match. Partnering with French players Félix Lebrun and ...

Chinese table tennis stars Liu Shiwen (first from left) and Ma Long (second from right) pose for photos in an event to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of China-US "Ping-Pong Diplomacy" in Los Angeles ...

Zhuang Zedong, a former Chinese table tennis player known for his participation in the historic Sino-U.S. ping-pong diplomacy in the 1970s, died at the age of 73 on Sunday. Sasaki Atsuko (L) takes ...

Chinese star player Ding Ning plays ceremonial match with a member of the UCLA table tennis varsity team after a training session at UCLA on Saturday. [Photo by Liu Yinming/China Daily] The ...

Have you ever watched a really good ping pong game on YouTube? The volleys stretch on for minutes at a time; the players so intense. With two new tariff announcements each from the U.S. and Chinese ...

Over the past decade a mounting wave of celebrity Asian athletes has arrived on Western shores. Big names in basketball like Yao Ming and baseball’s Ichiro Suzuki come to mind. Most recently, Li Na ...

Apparently the need to play games never goes away. Take, for example, Chinese astronaut Chen Dong. With members of the Chinese national table tennis team watching him on the Tiangong 2 space station ...

Ping-pong in space? Sounds awesome. But footage shared by Chinese media of astronaut Deng Qingming whacking a ball around in the country’s Tiangong is frankly very puzzling. The ball always returns to ...

Ping Pang Pong just might be Las Vegas’ all-time favorite Chinese restaurant. The Gold Coast eatery opened in 2001 but seems like it’s been around much longer than that, probably because owners and ...

Chinese table tennis player Zhuang Zedong, a key figure in what became known as the “ping pong diplomacy” that helped thaw frosty Cold War relations between the United States and China, has died aged ...