{"id":1041816,"date":"2021-11-21T21:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T02:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1041816"},"modified":"2021-11-21T21:59:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T02:59:50","slug":"enes-kanter-calls-for-olympics-to-be-moved-from-china-for-peng-shuais-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/enes-kanter-calls-for-olympics-to-be-moved-from-china-for-peng-shuais-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"Enes Kanter Calls for Olympics to be Moved from China &#039;For Peng Shuai&#039;s Sake&#039;"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fenes-kanter-calls-for-olympics-to-be-moved-from-china-for-peng-shuais-sake%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=1041816&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-110909514-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter has called for the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to move the Olympics out of China for \u201cthe sake\u201d of missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai.<\/p>\n<p>Kanter published an op-ed at the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/enes-kanter-move-the-olympics-for-peng-shuais-sake-11637444316?mod=djemalertNEWS\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a>, \u201cAll the gold medals in the world aren\u2019t worth selling your morals.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Kanter also posted a tweet demanding that the world \u201cIt\u2019s time for us to WAKE UP and SPEAK UP!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.129032258065\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Move the Olympics for Peng Shuai\u2019s Sake!!!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for us to WAKE UP and SPEAK UP!! <\/p>\n<p>All the gold medals in the WORLD aren\u2019t worth selling your morals, values and your principles.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhereIsPengShuai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhereIsPengShuai<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoBeijing2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoBeijing2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read my latest on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WSJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3lXoDh2KNg\">https:\/\/t.co\/3lXoDh2KNg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Enes Kanter (@EnesKanter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnesKanter\/status\/1462436700232327169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In his op-ed, Kanter said that western athletes should use their platforms to \u201clend a voice to those being silenced.\u201d And the international community of athletes, Kanter insists, should use that power to force China to definitively say that Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai is safe from retaliation from the communist regime after she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/18\/womens-tennis-chairman-skeptical-of-all-is-well-email-from-missing-peng-shuai\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> a high government official of raping her.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Kanter went on to take a slap at NBA star LeBron James for prioritizing money over morals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must also stop giving priority to money over morals. Claiming we are \u2018misinformed\u2019 or \u2018not really educated\u2019 should no longer be an excuse,\u201d he wrote. \u201cTake initiative. Reach out to activists and communities. Try to learn about the Chinese government\u2019s abuses. We can all be better allies, and stand in solidarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kanter was referring to LeBron James and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/lebron-rockets-morey-wasnt-educated-on-china-tweet\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scolding<\/a> of former Houston Rockets manager Daryl Morey for supporting the democracy activists n Chinese-controlled Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old player added that the world \u201cmust take a firm stance against the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics\u201d and praised the Women\u2019s Tennis Association for raising its concerns about Shuai. Kanter added that the IOC has \u201cshockingly echoed Chinese state media\u2019s rhetoric about her case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis comes as no surprise, as the IOC has ignored Beijing\u2019s abuses for years. As athletes concerned about human rights and justice, we must pressure the IOC to move the games. All the gold medals in the world aren\u2019t worth selling your values and your principles to the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d Kanter said.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, many are claiming that the case of Peng Shuai is solved since the Chinese government recently leaked a video of her at a restaurant. Still, the videos seem staged, and there is no evidence that the tennis player has freedom of movement or speech. Moreover, there is certainly no evidence that Shuai wasn\u2019t coerced into making the videos.<\/p>\n<p>Kanter ended his op-ed with a plea: \u201cWake up and speak up. Change is coming, and no one can stop it. They can\u2019t silence us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter has called for the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to move the Olympics out of China for \u201cthe sake\u201d of missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"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-1041816","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\/1041816","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041816\/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=1041816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}