CNN This Is Life With Lisa Ling November 22, 2021 06:19:00
First the ioc is not a neutral player. the ioc has a very close relationship with beijing. it has a lot of stake here with the upcoming beijing olympic games. the concern over peng shuai has cast a shadow over those games. you have talk of a potential or people considering -- governments considering the possibility of a diplomatic boycott. they had to address that, and that's why we saw this highly choreographed video chat being written up and shared with us from the ioc. in regards to your second point, yes, it was interesting over the weekend when state media wanted to answer the question, w...