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Hu Jintao beats, hugs Japanese table tennis starPosted by Eric Mu, May 9, 2008 4:47 PM
Two big news items dominate today's newspaper front pages: Hu Jintao in Japan and the Olympic Torch on Mount Everest. South Metropolis Daily printed a big image today on the front page showing a (unusually) beaming Hu Jintao holding hands with Japanese table tennis star Ai Fukuhara. Ai Fukuhara is renowned both in China and in Japan. She has visited China several times for training. In 2005, she joined the Liaoning provincial team, and later the Guangdong team, to participate in China's national table tennis contest. Last year, she began attending classes at Waseda University in Tokyo and is currently enrolled as a student there. Good-looking and speaking good Chinese with a northeastern accent, Ai Fukuhara has huge fan base both in China and Japan, though she has so far failed to win any medal in world level competitions. Yesterday Hu Jintao, during his visit to Waseda University, showcased his great table tennis skills by beating Ai Fukuhara, and Chinese Olympic champion Wang Nan, together, with the Japanese PM Fukuda standing aside transfixed. Unbelievable, but this is what the media are reporting. According to Japan Today, an English language website:
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Comments on Hu Jintao beats, hugs Japanese table tennis star
now this is just embarrassing. Follow Japanese Go-club etiquette and let Hu win by 1 pt, instead of this utterly transparent game-throwing.
At first I thought this was another '' Chairman Mao crosses the Yangtze,'' but then it wasn't...
"[Fukuhara] has so far failed to win any medal in world level competitions" is a misstatement. She has won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Cup (singles) and three times the bronze medal at the 2004, 2006 and 2006 World Team Championship.
Any videos yet of this?
Found some videos of this event on youtube:
A short overview video
link
A bit longer - starting at 1:30
link
this is funny. while seemingly unprobable that he won fair and square, it's not impossible that he won 5 of 8 rallies.
CCP officials are known to train under top national coaches
In my last comment the url-s that i inserted were filtered out..
Anyway, just search for "Hu Jintao vs Ai Fukuhara" in youtube
[I've fixed the links in the comment above. --JM]