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Members of the Chinese Ping Pong Team visiting the United States in 1972, the second trip of Ping Pong Diplomacy, after the U.S. team visited China in 1971, on a trip organized by the NCUSCR.
The Fund was instrumental in the 1966 creation of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR), and supported the Committee from that point forward. Established to legitimize discussions about the People’s Republic of China in the United States, as well as to foster exchanges amongst leading citizens of both countries, the Committee co-hosted the 1972 visit of the Chinese Table Tennis Team in round two of what came to be called “Ping Pong Diplomacy.” Alongside President Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, the sporting exchange helped encourage the re-opening of U.S.-China diplomatic relations. The RBF continued to support the NCUSCR during the “honeymoon” period of renewed Sino-American relations in the 1970s, funding the committee’s Chinese-English translation projects. Former RBF trustee Henry Kissinger has long served on the Committee’s governing board.
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Chinese ping pong players meet with American students during their 1972 U.S. visit.
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He Liliang, wife of Huang Hua, PRC Ambassador to the United Nations, meets with Chinese gymnasts visiting New York on a National Committee delegation, 1976.
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Members of a delegation from the China International Travel Service visiting the United States on a 1978 National Committee trip meet with children at a school.
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Mr. Rogers speaks with a Chinese delegation learning about American children’s educational television, 1983.
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