South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Chinese and US table tennis players mark 50 years since ‘ping-pong diplomacy’” – below is their description.
Shanghai hosted a series of friendly table tennis matches between Chinese and American amateur players on April 10, 2021, to mark the 50th anniversary of “ping-pong diplomacy”. The historic sports exchange in 1971 paved the way for the normalisation of China-US relations, including the first visit by a US president, Richard Nixon, to the People’s Republic of China. The 50th anniversary comes amid rising tensions between the two superpowers over issues such as trade, human rights and new national security laws recently introduced in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.
