A recent experiment at LEAR, the CERN Low Energy Antiproton Ring, has provided very precise dierential cross-section data for the pp ! nn chargeexchange reaction. When performing the extrapolation procedure to the pion pole originally proposed by G. F. Chew the data exhibit the same dynamical mechanism than the np ! pn line reversal reaction. The residue at the pole is consistent with the known value of the charged NN coupling constant, as expected from charge conjugation invariance.