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East Meets West.(Brief Article)
Sports can soothe even the stormiest of tiffs between the United States and China; in the 1970s table tennis opened the doors for the then President Nixon. Basketball probably won't throw missile-defense disputes off the radar, but who knows? Last week, the Chinese Army basketball team agreed to let 7-foot-1 Wang Zhi Zhi play for the Dallas Mavericks. Was this a new detente? Perhaps. But it was also part of a pitch for Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympics. Rather than patting himself on the back for becoming the NBA's first ...
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