Youths revisit Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Abdullah Aljerjawi clenched his fist and said "yes!" when his table tennis partner, Tao Chang, got the last point of the game with a nice drive.

The mixed doubles players, who had met each other for the first time just half an hour before their game in a stadium at Tsinghua University in Beijing on Saturday morning, won four matches out of five.

Aljerjawi, an undergraduate from the University of Virginia in the United States, and Tao, from Tsinghua University, were participants in a China-US youth table tennis exchange, the first such event held in China between the two countries since 2019.