Fogdog
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I wonder if any right wing trolls will show up to defend former Zhang Gaoli, a former vice premier and member of the ruling Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee from charges of rape?
Exchange Zhan Gaoli with Trump, change a few words to make it in the US and no doubt they would. Right wing authoritarians are the same all over the world.
Shocked tennis star Osaka posts: Where is Peng Shuai?
BEIJING (AP) — Tennis star Naomi Osaka says she’s been shocked to hear about a fellow player who has gone quiet since making a sexual assault allegation against a former top government official in China.
A few excerpts:
Peng wrote in a lengthy social media post earlier this month that a former vice premier had forced her to have sex despite repeated refusals. The post was removed from her verified account on Weibo, a leading Chinese social media platform, and China’s entirely state-controlled media has suppressed all reporting on the case.
“We are encouraged by the recent assurances received by WTA that she is safe and accounted for and will continue to monitor the situation closely,” Gaudenzi said. “Separately, we stand in full support of WTA’s call for a full, fair and transparent investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Peng Shuai.”
Peng, 35, wrote that Zhang Gaoli, a former vice premier and member of the ruling Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, had forced her to have sex despite repeated refusals following a round of tennis three years ago. She said Zhang’s wife guarded the door during the incident.
Here is the rub:
Peng also played in three Olympics — 2008, 2012, and 2016 — but the International Olympic Committee has remained silent about her allegations. The IOC and China are organizing the Beijing Winter Olympics starting Feb. 4.
The Chinese government is banking on basking in the glow of a successful winter Olympics and then a top tennis star, who would very likely have represented China in the games, as she has done three times before, was sexually assaulted by a 75 YO member of the Chinese ruling oligarchy and she refused to be silent. Now she has been silenced.
We'll see what the IOC is made of. If they hush up this scandal, it would be a sign that they have parted ways with social progress. The Me Too movement will not let them off the hook. Resulting in yet fewer younger viewers. Their audience dwindles.
Exchange Zhan Gaoli with Trump, change a few words to make it in the US and no doubt they would. Right wing authoritarians are the same all over the world.
State media release attributed to Peng raises WTA concerns
The head of the women’s professional tennis tour is questioning the legitimacy of a retraction Chinese state media says was from a Grand Slam doubles champion who has accused a former top government official of sexual assault.
apnews.com
Shocked tennis star Osaka posts: Where is Peng Shuai?
BEIJING (AP) — Tennis star Naomi Osaka says she’s been shocked to hear about a fellow player who has gone quiet since making a sexual assault allegation against a former top government official in China.
A few excerpts:
Peng wrote in a lengthy social media post earlier this month that a former vice premier had forced her to have sex despite repeated refusals. The post was removed from her verified account on Weibo, a leading Chinese social media platform, and China’s entirely state-controlled media has suppressed all reporting on the case.
“We are encouraged by the recent assurances received by WTA that she is safe and accounted for and will continue to monitor the situation closely,” Gaudenzi said. “Separately, we stand in full support of WTA’s call for a full, fair and transparent investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Peng Shuai.”
Peng, 35, wrote that Zhang Gaoli, a former vice premier and member of the ruling Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, had forced her to have sex despite repeated refusals following a round of tennis three years ago. She said Zhang’s wife guarded the door during the incident.
Here is the rub:
Peng also played in three Olympics — 2008, 2012, and 2016 — but the International Olympic Committee has remained silent about her allegations. The IOC and China are organizing the Beijing Winter Olympics starting Feb. 4.
The Chinese government is banking on basking in the glow of a successful winter Olympics and then a top tennis star, who would very likely have represented China in the games, as she has done three times before, was sexually assaulted by a 75 YO member of the Chinese ruling oligarchy and she refused to be silent. Now she has been silenced.
We'll see what the IOC is made of. If they hush up this scandal, it would be a sign that they have parted ways with social progress. The Me Too movement will not let them off the hook. Resulting in yet fewer younger viewers. Their audience dwindles.