Talk:Ping Pong Diplomacy
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[edit] Old talk
It open doors for the China-U.S. relations —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.52.216.5 (talk • contribs) 18:38, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Nuclear umbrella
Nuclear Winter and Other Scenarios:
- The purpose of the Russian's question was to remove the ambiguity that arose after the split between the Soviet Union and the Peoples' Republic of China as to whether the U.S. nuclear umbrella, which protected all countries not in the Soviet camp, now extended to protect China. By his reply, the American said that it did. The Soviet Union was then in an advanced stage of preparation for a nuclear attack on China's military and industrial facilities, which would also have caused the death of at least 300 million Chinese. A few weeks later, a higher-level Russian official asked the same question of a higher-level American official and got the same answer. Finally, Leonid Breshnev asked the same question of Henry Kissinger. He got the same answer, and decided not to go through with it. Shortly thereafter, the Chinese found out how the U.S. saved them from nuclear attack, and on April 6, 1971, they invited the U.S. ping-pong team to Peking. The rest is history.
If this is true, it puts a chilling note. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.250.143.131 (talk • contribs) 11:09, November 14, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] No Americans in 22 years
"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)
[edit] No American in 22 years
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)
[edit] Slight revisions
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)
