Weeks have passed since Chinese women’s tennis champion Peng Shuai accused Zhang Gaoli—the country’s former vice premier—of coercing her into sex in the course of an on-and-off affair, yet the scandal continues to produce international fallout. According to Peng, 35, who posted her allegations on Nov. 2 to China’s Twitter-like social media platform Weibo, she and the 75-year-old Zhang had begun seeing each other and had consensual sex more than a decade ago. But when they reunited following his retirement in 2018, he took advantage of her. “If you had never planned to take responsibility, why did you come back for me [and] take me to your home … ” Peng wrote, adding that Zhang’s wife Kang Jie helped “keep watch” for him outside a bedroom. “That afternoon, I didn’t consent and kept crying,” Peng’s Weibo post reads. Despite continuing the affair due to “harboring the same feelings” she had …