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Also today the Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has arrived in Beijing, beginning a historic state visit that marks the resumption of relations between China and Norway, interrupted for seven years. Among the agreements to be signed, also a close cooperation with a view of the Olympic Winter Games of 2022.
Friday 7 April 2017 3 minutes reading time
In 1971, in order to engage the first diplomatic relations between Communist China and the United States of 'America, the sport was used as a starter motor.
He was born the so-called "ping-pong", which brought the first American table tennis players policy to visit China and then in Asia to reciprocate the courtesy. It was an excuse to establish relations between the two nations and pave the way for Richard Nixon's historic visit to China in 1972.
The comparison is definitely challenging, but in light of what is happening in these can not but bring to mind. Relations between China and Norway had in fact cut off abruptly in 2010, when the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, a writer and activist for Chinese human rights considered "subversive".
Beijing cut off all ties with Oslo. After six years of frost on it is to finish in 2016 began working for a rapprochement, in fact culminated in the 'today's official resumption of relations. Among the strongest arguments used to return to dialogue is the sport, or the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022.
If the ping-pong was simply a flywheel to kick off all''avvicinamento Chinese-American, the XXIV edition of the Games of snow and ice is rather a focal point of a real international cooperation agreement between China and Norway , on a sporting level, it will result in a strong synergy.
Among those who in recent months has worked to finalize nell''ombra this bond is Gerhard Heiberg, a Norwegian member of the IOC considered very close to the Beijing government. "They were the ones to propose close cooperation with us" - said Heiberg in Dagbladet - "especially with regard to the Nordic disciplines, where we are leaders. I have had several meetings with the Minister of Sports and Chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee Gou Zhongwen, arriving at the end to draw up the document to be signed these days. "
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