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02.12.13Zhuang Zedong, Skilled in China Foreign Relations and Ping-Pong, Dies at 72
New York Times
In 1971, at the world table tennis championships in Japan, an American player mistakenly boarded a bus carrying the Chinese team. The team had been told not to talk to Westerners, and an awkward silence descended. Ten minutes elapsed. Then the best...