Three members of China's London team are veterans of the controversial 2008 Games: Deng Linlin, He Kexin, and Jiang Yuyuan, all of whom are now 20.
As a creative way of raising funds for his charity, the Luol Deng Foundation , he's organized an event where fans can come and take him on at his favourite computer games.
He found his 32-year-old bride, Wendy Deng, there, but he has not made a bean out of the company since he bought it from Richard Li, son of a rich Hong Kong businessman, Li Ka-shing, in 1993.
When Deng came to power he sent Mr Ji to Hong Kong to arrange for its return to China.
Then I ask what Deng would choose if he had a choice of an NBA championship ring with the Bulls or a Gold medal with Team GB.
Soviet "adventurism" in Southeast Asia had to be stopped, Deng said, and he was calculating (correctly, it turned out) that Moscow would not intervene in a limited border war between China and Vietnam.
Deng spoke no English when he arrived in the Big Smoke at the age of eight, yet his football prowess soon made him a popular figure in the school playground.
Deng's itinerant upbringing means he is fluent in English, Arabic, and Dinka.
Even behind bars, though, he could not resist needling Deng in a series of letters that were smuggled out of jail and published overseas.
Mr. Deng last week told The Wall Street Journal that he had planned to bring his wife to Beijing from their home province of Shaanxi, in northwest China, but had been thwarted after unidentified men prevented them from getting into a taxi at the hospital late Friday night.
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He showed no sign of unwillingness to follow Deng's desires economic reform, plus a bit of political reform as long as it kept the party firmly in power.
When the demanding founder of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, was asked recently which leaders he admired, Mr. Lee cited Churchill, Deng and de Gaulle.
When one of them, a man in his twenties named Deng Qian, tried to visit the site that day, he was tailed by police, who videotaped his movements.
Deng certainly gave Mr Mou his break, if only by releasing him before he was executed.
But it was basketball which captured Deng's heart and after learning the game with the Brixton Topcats club in south London, he earned a scholarship to Blair Academy High School in New Jersey at the age of 14.
Deng then produced a defensive play to win the game, blocking Hanga's lay-up after he had seemed set to drive to the basket to give the visitors the lead with 26 seconds remaining.
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