Red China Persecutes Tennis Star
Will Biden champion freedom? He could by inviting China to the Dec. 9-10 Summit for Democracy.
by Roger Kaplan
November 20, 2021, 11:01 PM
In early November, the Chinese (PRC) tennis star Peng Shuai wrote on her blog that she had been aggressed in 2018 by a Communist Party boss and vice-premier, Zhang Gaoli, who made her his concubine. The blog post, on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, was removed in less time than it takes to play a set, 20 minutes.
Peng’s glory days as an athlete were in the mid-teens, when she was the first Chinese tennis player to reach a no. 1 ranking; hers was in doubles. In that format she won Wimbledon 2013 and Roland-Garros 2014, partnering with the Taiwan (Free China) player Hsieh Su-wei (at a time when the Chicoms were offering Hsieh big bucks to defect to their side); Peng was also strong in singles, ranked no. 14.
Peng has not been seen in public or heard from since her blog was censured.
A transparently faked message that she is well, at home and resting, was put out on a Communist-controlled social media platform over her signature, but it has gained no credibility.
Peng’s broadcast was, it seems, the last cry of a still-born Chinese me-too movement, the authorities having squashed the efforts by Chinese women to speak out about rape and abuse in their country, especially when they concern the ruling class. Peng has been effectively “disappeared” and communist Chinese authorities refuse to answer questions about her. Imprisoned? House arrest? Tortured and brainwashed?
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