Commentary Over the weekend, reports emerged that the security service of the Australian Tennis Open, assisted by police, had ordered a spectator to remove her T-shirt that featured an image of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai on the front and the message “Where is Peng Shuai?” on the back. The 36-year-old player won the Doubles Wimbledon tennis tournament and the Doubles French Open, in respectively 2013 and 2014. Peng also played in the Semi-Final Singles of the U.S. Open in 2014. In November 2021, Peng Shuai accused a former vice-premier of the People’s Republic of China, Zhang Gaoli, of sexually assaulting her in 2017. The social media post on Weibo was removed within half an hour, and she disappeared; an ominous but common occurrence in China. She then resurfaced in a well-orchestrated online chat with Thomas Bach, the President of the International Olympic Committee, and she was seen at a …
‘Where Is Peng Shuai?’: Tennis Australia Sides With Beijing
January 24, 2022
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