Baseball bats cracked and fastballs flew as Pinghu City became the ultimate friendship arena this week! The 2025 'Straits Cup' University Baseball & Softball Games brought together over 300 student athletes from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan region ⚾🤝
Held July 8-11 in Zhejiang Province, the tournament saw teams from Peking University, Tsinghua University, and six Taiwan-based universities swing for home runs and cultural connections. Players swapped team patches, shared post-game bubble tea, and even created TikTok dance challenges between innings 🎵👯
'We're here to play hard, but also to understand each other better,' said Chen Wei, a Shanghai Jiao Tong University pitcher. Taiwan team captain Lin Hao added: 'Sports remind us we speak the same language – the love of the game.'
Local organizers called the event a 'fastball of friendship' promoting youth exchanges across the Taiwan Strait. With plans to make this an annual event, could baseball become the new diplomacy? 🎯🌍
