Concern is growing for a Chinese women’s tennis player who has seemingly vanished since making sexual assault allegations against a former vice premier of China online earlier this month.
Peng Shuai has not been heard from since posting earlier this month on her Weibo (a Chinese social media platform) account that Zhang Gaoli sexually assaulted her shortly after he stepped down as one of China’s top leaders in 2017.
The November 2 post, which also said Shuai had engaged in consensual sex with Gaoli at times during an alleged intermittent relationship, was deleted about a half an hour after it was published and Weibo searches for Shuai’s name and the term “tennis” were temporarily disabled.
Speaking with The New York Times, Simon said he had not spoken with Shuai but had received confirmation from several sources that the 35-year-old player is in Beijing and is “safe and not under any physical threat.” He also said the Tour, which has a deal to host 11 tournaments in China, would weigh the possibility of no longer doing business in the communist nation if there were not “appropriate results.”
Gaoli, 75, retired in 2018 and has largely disappeared from public life, per Yahoo.....snip~
Chinese Tennis Star Peng Shuai Missing After Sexual Assault Accusation - InsideHook
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