What began with ping-pong diplomacy nearly 50 years ago plunged into tit-for-tat hostility this week as China retaliated on Friday to the United States’ closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston by ordering the US consulate in Chengdu to cease operations. The US firmly placed China as the new geopolitical danger to the free world, threatening a shaky global economic order.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/from-ping-pong-diplomacy-to-tit-for-tat-hostility-us-china-ties-spiral-down/articleshow/77152858.cms