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More than five decades after the US Table Tennis Team’s historic trip to China in 1971, a group of students outside of Washington D.C. are carrying on the legacy of building relationships through sport.

Earlier this year a Maryland school district hosted a delegation of Chinese pickleball players, and shortly after a group of young American athletes visited China.

Now that a new academic year has started here in the US, school administrators are reflecting on the lessons learned, and looking for ways to expand the pickleball diplomacy program.

CGTN’s Walter Morris has the details.

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