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Apparent silencing of a tennis icon who dared into speak out against the former vice premiere. he is portrayed in chinese propaganda as down to earth, a crusader against corruption. the communist party will deal with this as an internal matter. i really doubt that they will actually refer this to prosecutors of the state because that would raise just too many issues. all senior leaders have the goods on everybody else. reporter: will ripley, cnn taipei. and what you re looking at there is a picture of cnn s current feed into china. china blocked our feed the minute we put this report on on peng shuai. they don t want the people there to see it. up next, we pay tribute to the dancing granny, who as we say earlier lost some of their members in the parade tragedy in wisconsin. of risk and reward.ce so you can enjoy more of.this. ....
Very choreographed response. according to the ioc there was a 30-minute video chat that took place on sunday between its president thomas bach and peng shuai. during the chat peng shuai said she is safe at well at home in beijing and she would like her privacy respected. we also know two other individuals were part of this video chat including a chinese sports official, and the ioc did not hand over the video for this video chat. we only have the statement and we only have that still photo in which you can see peng shuai smiling at the camera. it was three weeks a go when peng shuai made the explosive allegation of sexual assault against a very powerful man, a former chinese vice premiere. she made that accusation on a chinese social media platform. within half an hour it was taken down. she has been under blanket censorship since then. there have been no allegations in state media china. ....
Peng shuai by teleconference, with proof there is no one else present, proof she can speak freely. either that or she should be free to leave the country. he also says there should an open, transparent investigation to these allegations. maybe this former vice premiere is also being questioned, maybe he is being disciplined. how would we know? there is zero transparency about this. i want to read a portion of the quote from the women s tennis association. it says, it was good to see peng shuai in these videos but they don t alleviate or address the wta s concern about her safety or the rise of sexual assault which gave issue to our concern. china is known for people being ....
They mention november 121st, which is of course today s date. it was about three weeks ago, november 2nd, when peng shuai made that accusation against a very powerful man, the former vice premiere of china, accusing him of him forcing her to have sex with him. she made that accusation on social media and it was taken down since. there is no coverage of the allegations that she made since then on chinese state media or social media. the women s tennis association has continually expressed concern about peng shuai and her situation, has said that they re willing to put their business in china on the linener for her an reacting to this fresh video of her that has surfaced this weekend. let s bring up a statement from the women s tennis association. in it, they say, quote, while it is positive to see her, it remains unclear if she is free ....
After she made these explosive allegations against the former vice premiere, 75 years old. she said on her social media platform with half a million followers that he coerced her to have sex last year. that video was deleted, the entire post has been erased. none of this has been released inside china on china media. all of these tweets are being put out on social media platforms that are blocked in china. they are being tweeted on platforms that are not allowed inside the mainland, which means the vast majority of china s 1.5 billion citizens, even if they re fans of peng shuai, are being shut up. steve simon is demanding that he can speak directly with pe ....