re month into office by sending covert messages of rapprochement through Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania[148] and Yahya Khan of Pakistan[149] in December 1970. He reduced many trade restrictions between the two countries, and silenced anti-China voices within the White House.
In April 1971, the Chinese table tennis team invited the American table tennis team to attend a demonstration competition for a week in China.[150] The invitation came upon the order of Mao Zedong himself, who had taken note of Nixon's "subtle overtures" to improve U.S.-Chinese relations, including the conflict in Pakistan.[150] This was significant in that the fifteen-member table tennis team were allowed to enter mainland China after a period of over twenty years in which Americans, except on very rare occasions, had been denied visas[151] (the term "ping pong diplomacy" arose from this encounter).[152]
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