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Article: China's gold medalist Deng calls for Olympics-driven "soft power" improvement
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 12, 2007
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China's gold medalist Deng calls for Olympics-driven "soft power"
improvement
BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- China should seize the opportunity
of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to improve the country's soft power
by showing a polished national image to the world, a world gold
medalist of table tennis said here on Monday.
Soft power -- a nation's influence in culture, arts, ideology as
opposed to economy, technology and military -- is an integral part of
a country's comprehensive strength, said Deng Yaping, a veteran woman
table tennis player who now is a member of the National Committee of
the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the
country's top advisory body.
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