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46. China's Ping Pong Power: Episode 2

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The Chinese Communist Party's Politics of Friendship

Sport is being used by the Chinese Communist Party to conduct diplomacy, says Dr Pete Millwood. The foreign teams played to crowds of thousands in Beijing but something was off when they beat the all-star Chinese team. What the foreign players were experiencing was a Chinese policy of friendship first, competition second. Six members of the team arrived in Los Angeles today and while awaiting connecting flights met with reporters.

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