"It's like Ping-Pong diplomacy, eh?"

With the eyes of the world focused on North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, some hoped to see some Ping-Pong diplomacy this week at the Winter Asian Games.

After opening-up, there was Ping-Pong diplomacy, and then there was cultural diplomacy.

In 1971, Ping-Pong diplomacy marked a pivot point in Chinese-American relations.

Relations between the United States and China thawed through "Ping-Pong diplomacy."

The most dramatic was the 1971 initiative that came to be known as Ping-Pong diplomacy.

Although Mr. Weifenbach compared the sponsorship deal to Ping-Pong diplomacy, it seems to have failed to improve German-Libyan relations.

As my Taiwanese correspondent notes, the phrase (successor to dollar diplomacy, gunboat diplomacy, Ping-Pong diplomacy and shuttle diplomacy) was bottomed on transformational leadership.

But more important, it initiated the era of what became known as "Ping-Pong diplomacy."

If Henry Kissinger could practice "Ping-Pong diplomacy," perhaps Condoleezza Rice could try her hand at "dumpling diplomacy"?