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On\xa0April 28, 2021, the National Committee hosted a virtual celebration of the 50th anniversary of ping pong diplomacy.\xa0Ms. Jan Berris, vice president of the National Committee who accompanied the Chinese ping pong delegation on its travels;\xa0Ms. Judy Hoarfrost, a former United States table tennis champion who visited China with the U.S. team; and\xa0Dr. Doug Spelman, a retired foreign service officer and academic who served as an interpreter for the Chinese team discussed ping pong diplomacy \u2013 how it came to be, its historical and political context, and its significance then and now. The conversation was moderated by\xa0Mr. Alex DeAngelis, a staff member at the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People\u2019s Republic of China for much of the 1970s, who then moved to the National Science Foundation, based in Washington and Beijing.