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In 1972, President Nixon's trip to China marked a major political breakthrough. But a year prior, another historic moment helped thaw China-U.S. relations.

The American table tennis visited China for what would become known as ping pong diplomacy. More than 50 years later, students at the University of Virginia relived that history.

"We had a cultural exchange, not only with diplomats and really important ambassadors. But we also met up with students ... We did a lot of competition competitions together, friendly competitions, where it would be doubles with an American student and then a Chinese University student, so it's more of a win-win situation and there's no losers. And we echoed the sentence, Friends first, competition second," said Jie Lu, captain of the University of Virginia table tennis team.

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