{"id":1087128,"date":"2021-12-05T16:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T21:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1087128"},"modified":"2021-12-05T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T21:29:17","slug":"tapper-excoriates-disney-ioc-for-appeasing-china-while-womens-tennis-fights-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tapper-excoriates-disney-ioc-for-appeasing-china-while-womens-tennis-fights-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapper Excoriates Disney, IOC For Appeasing China While Women\u2019s Tennis Fights Back"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ftapper-excoriates-disney-ioc-for-appeasing-china-while-womens-tennis-fights-back%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=1087128&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--><p>On Sunday, CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper ended his \u201cState of the Union\u201d show with a monologue in which he excoriated organizations that bend over backward for Communist China, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Nike, the NBA, Disney, and Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Tapper began with the continuing story of Chinese Tennis star Peng Shuai, who, after alleging that a \u201cformer top Chinese government official\u201d sexually assaulted her, was disappeared, and her social media post regarding the alleged assault erased.<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) \u201cnot only spoke out against this injustice, it decided to suspend all tournaments in China because of its treatment of Peng Shuai,\u201d Tapper stated.<\/p>\n<p>The host then compared the courage of the WTA to the IOC, which Tapper said is \u201chelping the Chinese government by providing them cover.\u201d The IOC has claimed that it held video calls with Peng, but would not release footage or \u201ceven a transcript.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IOC is behaving like a mob lawyer,\u201d Tapper said, later adding that the Trump and Biden administrations \u201chave asserted that China is committing \u2026 genocide and crimes against humanity against more than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Hui, other Muslims, some Christians, in internment camps, or converted detention facilities, according to the U.S. State Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The host continued, detailing the allegations against the Chinese government, such as forced sterilization of detained women and coerced abortions. Tapper then pivoted, noting the possibility that some Christmas gifts this year will have been \u201cmade at least in part\u201d using \u201cUyghur forced labor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple and Nike publicly claim to decry slave labor. But to be clear, the behavior we are seeing from U.S. corporations is not about a company surviving, it\u2019s about discontent with just hundreds of millions of dollars, desiring instead billions of dollars,\u201d Tapper said before playing a clip in which Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates compared the Chinese regime to a \u201cstrict parent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tapper then struck Disney and Paramount, noting the concessions made in certain films to appease China.<\/p>\n<p>Showing a screenshot of the credits for 2020\u2019s \u201cMulan,\u201d Tapper said: \u201cHere\u2019s Disney in the credits for \u2018Mulan\u2019 thanking the publicity department of the Chinese Communist Party, in Xinjiang, where the cultural genocide is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The host also cited a recent example of censorship in which an episode of \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d critical of China was wiped from the Disney+ service in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Tapper concluded his monologue with a killing blow:<\/p>\n<p><em>That \u201cSimpsons\u201d episode in Hong Kong disappeared like Peng Shuai disappeared like citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, whom the Chinese government has locked up for telling the truth about COVID-19, disappeared like the consciences of the millionaires and billionaires in Hollywood and the NBA and the IOC and Wall Street, who are all so eager for Chinese cash, they are pretending none of this is happening. There is no amount of money that can buy enough soap to wash that blood off their hands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Amid the Women\u2019s Tennis Association\u2019s decision to pull future events in China over concern for tennis star Peng Shuai, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jaketapper<\/a> examines China\u2019s alleged history of human rights abuses and questions if other organizations will put ethics over profit. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNNSOTU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wOgsdM590w\">pic.twitter.com\/wOgsdM590w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 State of the Union (@CNNSotu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNSotu\/status\/1467536741175332866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tapper is just the latest public figure to denounce the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s brutality, and rebuke the companies whose leaders look the other way.<\/p>\n<p>Celtics player Enes Kanter Freedom has been repeatedly castigating China over their human rights abuses, referring to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a \u201cdictator,\u201d and standing in solidarity with Taiwan against Chinese aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Kanter recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/enes-kanter-rips-lebron-james-will-shut-up-and-dribble-when-big-boss-china-says-so\">laid into<\/a> NBA star LeBron James. In 2019, James was critical of then-Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey after Morey tweeted in support of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026I believe he wasn\u2019t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke,\u201d James <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/disaster-lebron-tries-to-explain-china-remarks-digs-deeper-hole\">said<\/a> after Morey\u2019s tweet. \u201cSo many people could have been harmed, not only financially, but physically, emotionally, and spiritually. So just be careful what we tweet and say and we do, even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kanter has even worn a custom pair of sneakers in which LeBron James can be seen kneeling before Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Money over Morals for the \u201cKing\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sad &amp; disgusting how these athletes pretend they care about social justice<\/p>\n<p>They really do \u201cshut up &amp; dribble\u201d when Big Boss says so<\/p>\n<p>Did you educate yourself about the slave labor that made your shoes or is that not part of your research? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YUA8rGYeoZ\">pic.twitter.com\/YUA8rGYeoZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnesFreedom\/status\/1461380967197814785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoney over Morals for the \u2018King,\u2019\u201d Kanter tweeted alongside photos of the custom sneakers. \u201cSad &amp; disgusting how these athletes pretend they care about social justice. They really do \u2018shut up &amp; dribble\u2019 when Big Boss [China] says so. Did you educate yourself about the slave labor that made your shoes or is that not part of your research?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper ended his \u201cState of the Union\u201d show with a monologue in which he excoriated organizations that bend over backward for Communist China, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Nike, the NBA, Disney, and Apple.Tapper began with the continuing story of Chinese Tennis star Peng Shuai, who, after alleging that a \u201cformer top Chinese government official\u201d sexually assaulted her, was disappeared, and her social media post regarding the alleged assault erased.The Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) \u201cnot only spoke out against this injustice, it decided to suspend all tournaments in China because of its treatment of Peng Shuai,\u201d Tapper stated.The host then compared the courage of the WTA to the IOC, which Tapper said is \u201chelping the Chinese government by providing them cover.\u201d The IOC has claimed that it held video calls with Peng, but would not release footage or \u201ceven a transcript.\u201d\u201cThe IOC is behaving like a mob lawyer,\u201d Tapper said, later adding that the Trump and Biden administrations \u201chave asserted that China is committing \u2026 genocide and crimes against humanity against more than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Hui, other Muslims, some Christians, in internment camps, or converted detention facilities, according to the U.S. State Department.\u201dThe host continued, detailing the allegations against the Chinese government, such as forced sterilization of detained women and coerced abortions. Tapper then pivoted, noting the possibility that some Christmas gifts this year will have been \u201cmade at least in part\u201d using \u201cUyghur forced labor.\u201d\u201cApple and Nike publicly claim to decry slave labor. But to be clear, the behavior we are seeing from U.S. corporations is not about a company surviving, it\u2019s about discontent with just hundreds of millions of dollars, desiring instead billions of dollars,\u201d Tapper said before playing a clip in which Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates compared the Chinese regime to a \u201cstrict parent.\u201dTapper then struck Disney and Paramount, noting the concessions made in certain films to appease China.Showing a screenshot of the credits for 2020\u2019s \u201cMulan,\u201d Tapper said: \u201cHere\u2019s Disney in the credits for \u2018Mulan\u2019 thanking the publicity department of the Chinese Communist Party, in Xinjiang, where the cultural genocide is happening.\u201dThe host also cited a recent example of censorship in which an episode of \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d critical of China was wiped from the Disney+ service in Hong Kong.Tapper concluded his monologue with a killing blow:That \u201cSimpsons\u201d episode in Hong Kong disappeared like Peng Shuai disappeared like citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, whom the Chinese government has locked up for telling the truth about COVID-19, disappeared like the consciences of the millionaires and billionaires in Hollywood and the NBA and the IOC and Wall Street, who are all so eager for Chinese cash, they are pretending none of this is happening. There is no amount of money that can buy enough soap to wash that blood off their hands.Amid the Women\u2019s Tennis Association\u2019s decision to pull future events in China over concern for tennis star Peng Shuai, @jaketapper examines China\u2019s alleged history of human rights abuses and questions if other organizations will put ethics over profit. #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com\/wOgsdM590w\u2014 State of the Union (@CNNSotu) December 5, 2021Tapper is just the latest public figure to denounce the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s brutality, and rebuke the companies whose leaders look the other way.Celtics player Enes Kanter Freedom has been repeatedly castigating China over their human rights abuses, referring to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a \u201cdictator,\u201d and standing in solidarity with Taiwan against Chinese aggression.Kanter recently laid into NBA star LeBron James. In 2019, James was critical of then-Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey after Morey tweeted in support of Hong Kong.\u201c\u2026I believe he wasn\u2019t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke,\u201d James said after Morey\u2019s tweet. \u201cSo many people could have been harmed, not only financially, but physically, emotionally, and spiritually. So just be careful what we tweet and say and we do, even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too.\u201dKanter has even worn a custom pair of sneakers in which LeBron James can be seen kneeling before Xi Jinping.Money over Morals for the \u201cKing\u201dSad &#038; disgusting how these athletes pretend they care about social justiceThey really do \u201cshut up &#038; dribble\u201d when Big Boss says soDid you educate yourself about the slave labor that made your shoes or is that not part of your research? pic.twitter.com\/YUA8rGYeoZ\u2014 Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) November 18, 2021\u201cMoney over Morals for the \u2018King,\u2019\u201d Kanter tweeted alongside photos of the custom sneakers. \u201cSad &#038; disgusting how these athletes pretend they care about social justice. They really do \u2018shut up &#038; dribble\u2019 when Big Boss [China] says so. Did you educate yourself about the slave labor that made your shoes or is that not part of your research?\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"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-1087128","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\/1087128","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\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087128\/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=1087128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}