Players from Georgetown and the Chinese team Bayi throwing punches during a brawl. (AP)

BEIJING--Georgetown coach John Thompson III said, he makes peace with the trainer of a Chinese basketball team in a bank clearing brawl and denies the melee carried out any political connotations.

Thompson said on Saturday that he met the Bayi rockets coach on Friday and she shook hands and chatted about basketball and other matters.

Thompson do not think that the brawl in Beijing on Thursday had political overtones. The rockets in China advertise military, and the fight seemed to embody often controversial US-China relations on the second day of highly acclaimed visit by Vice President Joe Biden.

"Beijing behind us, man," Thompson said Saturday, a day after flying to Shanghai as part of a 10-day goodwill trip. "We look forward here in Shanghai to be." And our team was invited the city of Shanghai part of his here. "Beijing is over."

"The question of what he said his players, Thompson said: 'I told them,' Let's go, Shanghai and have fun." "

China, diplomacy, sometimes to promote, through violent flare-ups of players and fans affected use during sports. Thursday as the referee ran high tensions began numerous fouls of the Hoyas required.

After Bayi players tapped to protect Jason Clark on the ground, the melee followed with players throw punches and chairs. The Hoyas left the Court as fans bottled water on it, threw the score tied at 64.

Coach and player of the two teams met to agree on representatives at Beijing's airport Friday.

"Yes, we've put together and shook hands and their coach and talked me about things other than basketball, families, and we both can proceed," said Thompson.

While the Hoyas were originally planned, which was to play missile again on Sunday in Shanghai, cancelled before the fight match on Thursday. Georgetown will face the Tianjin Ronggang instead.

"We expect good competition against a very difficult team," Thompson said.

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