{"id":1015251,"date":"2021-11-15T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015251"},"modified":"2021-11-15T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:44:19","slug":"tennis-star-who-accused-chinese-official-of-sexual-assault-now-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennis-star-who-accused-chinese-official-of-sexual-assault-now-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Star Who Accused Chinese Official of Sexual Assault Now Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftennis-star-who-accused-chinese-official-of-sexual-assault-now-missing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015251&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.841201716738\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Chinese authorities censor internet references to doubles player Peng Shuai<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-462857137-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-462857137-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-462857137-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-462857137-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-462857137-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-462857137-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-462857137-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tShuai Peng \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 November 15, 2021 1:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"67.003970880212\">\n<p>A Chinese tennis star who accused a former Communist Party official of sexual assault is now missing, according to the Women&#8217;s Tennis Association.<\/p>\n<p>Peng Shuai has not appeared in public since Nov. 2, when in a social media post she accused former vice premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. While the Chinese Tennis Association has told Women&#8217;s Tennis Association CEO Steve Simon that Peng is &#8220;safe,&#8221; Simon says WTA officials and players have been unable to contact Peng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/14\/sports\/peng-shuai-zhang-gaoli.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Simon in a statement Sunday called on Chinese authorities to investigate Peng&#8217;s claim and threatened to cut WTA&#8217;s ties with China, where it hosts 11 tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If at the end of the day, we don&#8217;t see the appropriate results from this, we would be prepared to take that step and not operate our business in China if that&#8217;s what it came to,&#8221; Simon said.<\/p>\n<p>Peng, a Wimbledon and French Open doubles champion, said Zhang sexually assaulted her in 2018 after inviting her to play at his home. Peng&#8217;s message on the Chinese social media site Weibo was removed shortly after she posted it, and Chinese authorities have censored references to the tennis star from web searches, according to the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>China has a history of retaliating against sports figures who speak out against the Chinese Communist Party. The country <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/china-pulls-celtics-games-after-player-says-free-tibet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pulled<\/a> Boston Celtics games from China&#8217;s streaming services last month after the team&#8217;s center, Enes Kanter, called President Xi Jinping a &#8220;brutal dictator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Chinese authorities censor internet references to doubles player Peng Shuai  Shuai Peng \/ Getty Images  Cole Carnick \u2022 November 15, 2021 1:30 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}