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46. China's Ping Pong Power: Episode 2
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The Importance of Sleeping Pills in the Communist Party
No one in the room with Mao moved or reacted. Chairman had issued instructions that anything he said after taking sleeping pills should be ignored. But these people around him are very talented, says Zwan. So they asked Mao to repeat it because it was so important. What if Mao had simply fallen asleep before uttering the orders? Yet the order was given and word reached the American team. They were invited to China. And I can remember walking across that border. There were armed guards standing there with rifles. And that was pretty scary.
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