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'Where is Peng Shuai?' answered: IOC head plans to meet her again in summerIOC President Thomas Bach met the tennis star for dinner during the weekend.
China's pandemic Olympics begins, with lockdown and boycottsThe opening ceremony began just after the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach...
Amnesty warns over 'sportswashing' at Beijing OlympicsThe organisation fears China will use the Games to distract from alleged human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims and in Hong Kong, a...
Sports in 2021: Mixed bag of some great moments and ugly controversiesOn August 7, 2021, the penultimate day of the Tokyo Olympics, Neeraj Chopra wrote history when he threw his javelin to 87.58 meters to beco...
China moves to regulate digital presence of celebritiesThe CAC on November 23, made an official announcement to monitor and regulate celebrity fan culture in China. The authorities articulated t...
WTA stand against China over Peng Shuai case holds lessons for the worldSimon has stated he and the WTA will not compromise till Peng herself assures them of her own safety, and China ensures a proper investigat...
US diplomatic boycott: What does it mean for the Olympics?This could potentially complicate efforts by Biden to make progress with China on issues such as arms-control talks and efforts to cool ten...
Principles before profits Simon takes a standIn the middle of it, Steve Simon, the bespectacled chair and CEO of the WTA Tour, stood quietly and unsmiling in a blue business suit with ...
The sports world received a hint last week of a changing dynamicThe threat from the WTA, then, could serve as a sign of showdowns to come, in which case, Dreyer said, China could lose out. “Frankly, Chin...
Peng Shuai’s accusation pierced the privileged citadel of Chinese politicsIn Peng’s post, addressed to Zhang, she said the two had met more than a decade earlier when her career was taking off and his was nearing ...
Why China can’t bury Peng Shuai and its #MeToo scandalInstead of persuading the world, China’s ham-handed response has become a textbook example of its inability to communicate with an audience...
Why China can’t bury Peng Shuai and its #MeToo ScandalChinese state media and its journalists have offered one piece of evidence after another to prove the star Chinese tennis player was safe a...
Xi's “good friend” Putin to attend Beijing Winter Olympics amid US diplomatic boycott plansPutin's visit to Beijing to take part in the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in February next year will make him the first state leader to...
Missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai reappears in public in BeijingThe post by the China Open on the Weibo social media service made no mention of Peng's disappearance or her accusation.
As the world asks #WhereIsPengShuai, here's a look at what drives high-profile disappearances in ChinaAlibaba founder Jack Ma had stopped appearing in public after criticising regulators in 2020.
Where is Peng Shuai? Why isn't the IOC speaking out?Peng is, after all, one of its own, a three-time Olympian and tennis trailblazer who suddenly disappeared into the morass of what passes fo...
China says 'not aware' of tennis player Peng Shuai issuePeng wrote in a lengthy social media post on Nov. 2 that she had been forced to have sex despite repeated refusals three years ago by Zhang...