<P> Upon his return to the United States, one of the American players told reporters that the Chinese were very similar to people in the U.S. He said: </P> <P> The people are just like us . They are real, they're genuine, they got feeling . I made friends, I made genuine friends, you see . The country is similar to America, but still very different . It's beautiful . They got the Great Wall, they got plains over there . They got an ancient palace, the parks, there's streams, and they got ghosts that haunt; there's all kinds of, you know, animals . The country changes from the south to the north . The people, they have a, a unity . They really believe in their Maoism . </P> <P> Two months after Richard Nixon's visit, Zhuang Zedong visited the U.S. as the head of a Chinese table - tennis delegation, April 12--30, 1972 . Also on the itinerary were Canada, Mexico and Peru . However, China's attempts to reach out to countries through "ping - pong diplomacy" were not always successful, such as when the All Indonesia Table Tennis Association (PTMSI) refused China's invitation in October 1971, claiming that accepting the PRC's offer would improve the PRC's reputation . Because neither Soviet athletes nor journalists appeared in China following the appearance of the American players and journalists, one speculation is that the act showed the equal scorn of both countries towards the USSR . </P> <P> Ping - pong diplomacy was successful and resulted in opening the U.S. - PRC relationship, leading the U.S. to lift the embargo against China on June 10, 1971 . On February 28, 1972, during President Nixon and Henry Kissinger's visit to Shanghai, the Shanghai Communique was issued between the U.S. and the PRC . The Communique noted that both nations would work towards the normalization of their relations . Furthermore, the U.S. recognized that Taiwan is a part of China and agreed not to interfere in issues between China and Taiwan . </P>

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