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|Slide 1 of 31: Mystery still surrounds Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai after her mysterious disappearance in 2021. Some, such as the WTA leadership, believe the athlete is currently under strict control of the Communist government.

 

  • Slide 2 of 31: Peng Shuai was seen last February, during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. It was hard to believe how a few months earlier she had been at the center of what some Western media, such as France24, dubbed the “Chinese #MeToo Movement.”
  • Slide 3 of 31: The three-time Olympian, seen here talking with International Olympics Committee president Thomas Bach, gave an interview this February to French sports newspaper L'Equipe. There, she claimed that the sex abuse allegations she made public last November were “a misunderstanding.”
  • Slide 4 of 31: Meanwhile, Peng Shaui's accusations, disappearance, and eventual reappearance have caught the attention of many human rights activists in the West. Here you can see her image during a US Congress hearing titled “The Beijing Olympics and The Faces of Repression.”
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  • Slide 5 of 31: At the same time, anti-Chinese government protestors could be seen wearing T-shirts asking about Peng Shuai during the Australia Open last January.
  • Slide 6 of 31: Despite China's best attempts to keep the scandal under the rug, around the globe the claims the tennis player made against former Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli are still a matter of speculation.
  • Slide 7 of 31: Peng Shuai suddenly went off the radar for a while in November 2021. The Western world demanded to know where she'd gone, and there were suspicions that the Chinese government of her country might have put her in jail or worse.
  • Slide 8 of 31: Even after Peng was seen during a children's tournament in Beijing (pictured) on November 21, questions have remained around the case. Images like this one were heavily circulated by Chinese state media. Image: Weibo China Open
  • Slide 9 of 31: Also on Sunday November 21, Peng Shuai held a conversation with International Olympic Committee (IOC) chairman Thomas Bach. The tennis player explained to him that she was "safe and well, living at her home in Beijing, but would like to have her privacy respected at this time," according to a press release by the IOC. There's little question that he had, indeed, spoken to Peng Shuai.
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  • Slide 10 of 31: The day before the conversation, Hu Xijin, a journalist who has close ties with the Chinese government, posted a video of Peng Shuai having dinner at a restaurant with her coach. The table talk in the video brings up the date of the recording, an oddity that generated more questions than answers.
  • Slide 11 of 31: One of those skeptical about the video and Peng Shuai's sudden reappearance is Steve Simon, Chairman, and CEO of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). “While it is positive to see her, it remains unclear if she is free and able to make decisions and take actions on her own, without coercion or external interference,” the chairman stated.
  • Slide 12 of 31: "This video does not change our call for a full, fair and transparent investigation, without censorship, into her allegation of sexual assault, which is the issue that gave rise to our initial concern," declared Simon, pictured here doing the WTA finals in Shenzhen, China, in 2019.
  • Slide 13 of 31: The assault allegation made by Peng Shuai ignited a grand slam of diplomacy and sports politics for several weeks. On November 2, the tennis player went quiet after making major accusations against a very important member of the Chinese power hierarchy. That silence was enough proof, for Western media at least, that the tennis player had “disappeared.”
  • Slide 14 of 31: The 35-year old female tennis world champion posted on the Chinese social network Weibo that she had been repeatedly assaulted by Zhang Gaoli. He was the Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China between 2013 and 2018.
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  • Slide 31 of 31: People can really only speculate what happened behind the scenes with Peng Shuai. One can only hope that, someday, the powerful men who exploit their position to abuse those under them will be held accountable, one way or the other.
Slide 1 of 31: Mystery still surrounds Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai after her mysterious disappearance in 2021. Some, such as the WTA leadership, believe the athlete is currently under strict control of the Communist government.

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Mystery still surrounds Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai after her mysterious disappearance in 2021. Some, such as the WTA leadership, believe the athlete is currently under strict control of the Communist government.

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