People's Ping Pong Player's Visit

People's Ping Pong Player's Visit

A sister from the championship ping-pong team of the People's Republic of China after being presented with a copy of the Ann Arbor SUN. The team passed through town last week on a whirlwind tour, smiling and quietly checking out what must have been a very bizarre scene, whisked around the U of M campus surrounded by State Department security teams who made it close to impossible for anyone to have a few words with them, especially anyone that didn't look respectably Amerikan.

The team's visit to the U.S. has given people in this country, brainwashed all their lives into believing that "Communist China" is their mortal enemy, a first-hand look into what the Chinese are really like. The information about China now reaching America is serving to make people change their views at a pace never paralleled in history, thanks to the electronic insta-flash of television. Many are seeing that there's a lot to be learned from the Chinese system, at the same time that they see their own so-called "democratic" system collapsing on every front.

The Chinese team knocked everybody out at their ping-pong match at Crisler Arena, beating the Americans easily every game, proving once again Chairman Mao's belief that "today the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind. That is to say, the forces of socialism have become overwhelmingly superior to the forces of imperialism."