Sports titbits:Table tennis
【明報專訊】The second All Hong Kong Inter-Area Primary Schools Table Tennis Competition 2016 - 2017(第二屆全港小學區際乒乓球比賽)is to take place on 8 and 9 April 2017. If you have friends who are going to take part in it, cheer for them!
Big word
Ping-pong diplomacy (乒乓外交) — It refers to a series of exchanges between table tennis players of the US and the People's Republic of China in the early 1970s. In April 1971, members of the American table tennis team, accompanied by journalists, became the first Americans to visit China officially since the Communist Party of China (中國共產黨) took power in 1949. The visit paved the way for the normalisation of Sino-US relations.
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pave the way for (idiom) 為……鋪路