Posted on 07/15/2022 3:28:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
SNIP
he ‘announced’ her departure from the game four months ago, during one of two bizarre interviews which have seemed designed to provide a veneer of legitimacy to the Chinese state’s process of vanishing her.
More than 18 months have passed, now, since China removed Peng from the internet and, effectively, from public life. She had publicly accused a 75-year-old former Communist Party official of sexual assault. The Chinese state’s response to international demands to know her whereabouts says everything about its bloated sense of invincibility.
There was a creepy, stage-managed appearance with the IOC president Thomas Bach who, in a risible attempt to prop up the credibility of the Beijing Winter Olympics, insisted the young woman was fine, having decided not to bring up the question of the sexual assault allegation.
Peng materialised at one Winter Olympics event, but was escorted away and ushered into a waiting private car even before the medal ceremony took place. In February, she appeared for an ‘interview’ with L’Equipe, conducted from a Beijing hotel room where the Chinese Olympic Committee chief of staff, Wang Kan, watched over her from the doorway and translated her answers to pre-agreed questions.
This despite Peng having always comfortably conversed with reporters in English. Peng, who wore Chinese state uniform, announced her retirement. L’Equipe’s journalist Marc Ventouillac says he could not be sure she was safe.
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She’s dead, Jim.
Organ donor.
I think it’s house arrest.
Perhaps still being forced to be a ChiCom mistress.
Here in the Media States of America, we call that the Hillary/Epstein effect.
They shut down the comments section. 🙄
Embarrassments to the state are not unusually heard from again or they will never be the same if they do get out of the gulag. She was supposed to be some apparatchik’s toy and likely she’s someone else’s now. I hope I am incorrect and she is safe but may he soul find peace because the Chinese government will not let her.
She’s taking a break assembling iPhones
I’m sure her organs are now benefiting several Communist Party members...
She will next appear in the new Bodies: The Exhibition and will be posed as a tennis player...
Beigingcide
It’s not a Bloated sense of Invincibility. It is a justified sense of Invincibility.
The Chinese Communists understand full well the rest of the world are Paper Tigers. Toothless. Ineffective. Corrupt. Bought and Paid For.
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