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The Sinister Truth about Peng Shuai Has Been Revealed


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Peng Shuai, China's tennis star is not ok. The Chinese government has made many attempts to cover up her allegations, her whereabouts, and whether or not she is ok. The WTA (Woman's Tennis Association) says that it's not good enough. The International Olympic Committee disagrees. It turns out, the forced video call with the IOC tells us a more sinister picture.

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Why quiet diplomacy won’t cut it after chilling Peng Shuai revelations

 

There’s something chilling; unnervingly repugnant about all of this. That the International Olympic Committee’s president Thomas Bach, together with Chinese IOC member Li Lingwei and the chair of the IOC’s Athletes Commission Emma Terho, did this week deign to partake in a palpably stage-managed video conference, with the hitherto disappeared Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai.

 

More concerning is that the IOC could ever be satisfied as to the actual safety and well-being of Peng, based solely on the athlete’s participation in this half-hour conflab; her apparently willing representation that she’s full of joy, living at her home in Beijing and coincidentally, just spending time with family.

 

My instinct is to question why the IOC didn’t also request that the athlete hold up to camera a current date print edition of the People’s Daily to conclusively prove life, and ensure the conversation wasn’t actually being had with a CGI avatar of Peng.

But when you sit back and consider this scenario more critically, it’s hard to not end up consumed by trouble. Before her Zoom meeting with the IOC’s top brass, Peng’s exact whereabouts and safety had remained unknown since the beginning of November.

 

Peng, the former Wimbledon and French Open champion and former world No.1 in doubles, (was) disappeared after she posted a lengthy statement on the Chinese social media channel Weibo, claiming she’d been sexually assaulted and forced against her will into a relationship of a sexual nature with Zhang Gaoli.

 

Zhang is no communist party hack. The 75-year-old is the former senior vice-premier of China, a role in which he served the Chinese communist regime for a number of years to 2018.

 

Peng Shuai plays against Tatjana Maria at the 2015 Australian Open.

Peng Shuai plays against Tatjana Maria at the 2015 Australian Open. CREDIT: EDDIE JIM

 

 

Are we expected to believe that Peng organised this meeting with the IOC of her own volition? If so, precisely where was Peng located when she participated? Were officials from the CCP silently, menacingly present just off-camera? If so, who was there, and why? What degree of sanitisation did they apply to what Peng said?

 

Would you be prepared to accept as truth any similar communication issued to this masthead, by a presumed kidnap victim?

 

I fear this is a rhetorical question, but has Peng got free access to legal representation of her own choosing? Can she even approach law enforcement in Beijing? And would those authorities have the requisite fortitude to instigate an investigation regarding Peng’s serious claims about Zhang’s conduct?

 

Bach is himself a lawyer; surely these questions must’ve entered his mind? But even so, why exactly was the IOC ever prepared to be seen participating in what appears to be a largely fictionalised video conference?

 

Yes, Peng is a three-time Olympian, but she didn’t represent China in Tokyo at the delayed 2020 Games. She isn’t an Olympic champion nor medallist; her performances at the three Games she’s partaken in have been lacklustre (and that’s being kind).

Or are we, as discerning and free-thinking individuals, expected to delineate between what’s fact, what’s free speech, and what’s stage-managed propaganda? Are we entitled to just call bullshit on everything? Mustn’t we question whether Peng might be speaking with the proverbial gun to her head?

 

Besides Beijing hosting the Winter Olympics in just 10 weeks, precisely why was the IOC - as opposed to the WTA, Amnesty International or even the United Nations - bestowed the privilege of speaking to Peng?

And finally, this sixty-four million yuan question: where the hell is Peng Shuai, at this very moment?

It’s pure fantasy to conclude that the CCP’s conduct is consistent in any way with the IOC’s own requirements.

But back to the alleged perpetrator. To give Zhang’s former offices some context, the Politburo Standing Committee of which he was a member sits right atop the pyramid structure of the CCP, the veritable dark angel on the Christmas tree.

Whereas the CCP has roughly 95 million members and a governance structure of byzantine complexity, the PSC was composed of seven CCP members when Zhang was a member, up to the end of 2017. Another of the seven was (and still is) Chinese President Xi Jinping.

 

Peng’s social media post remained live for less than half an hour before the state cleansed the entire state-controlled version of the Internet. The athlete gave an account of a decade-long affair with Zhang, spanning the period including when he was the CCP senior vice-president and a PSC member, sitting alongside Xi.

 

Peng’s statement also detailed a specific incident where she alleges she was sexually assaulted by Zhang inside a closed room, while Zhang’s wife stood guard at the room’s door.

 

It’s worthwhile observing that infidelity is absolutely prohibited by the CCP, with consequences ranging from expulsion to much worse. Peng’s claims, made earlier this month, have been made against one of the CCP’s highest-ranking former officials.

 

The consequences for Zhang, regarding the public ventilation of these allegations, are manifestly more serious than the mere loss of an Australian Test cricket captaincy. The CCP diametrically reshaping the message is precisely what the CCP does. And we are all flamin’ idiots if we don’t call out the party’s diabolical tactics.

 

It’s hardly a stretch to conclude that the CCP might take whatever steps necessary to cleanse Zhang of these allegations. It’s easy to control the internet in China, to expunge all references to Peng and her Weibo statement. Convincing the world rightfully must be an entirely different proposition.

 

It was in 2015 that the IOC awarded Beijing the right of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics. It’s moot now whether that decision should have been made. China’s human rights record means the country should never have been awarded such honours, but the reality is Beijing was selected.

 

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/why-quiet-diplomacy-won-t-cut-it-after-chilling-peng-shuai-revelations-20211125-p59c02.html

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