ANOTHER MSM MUGGING – Here’s the full story of what did (and didn’t) happen between Peng Shuai and Zhang Gaoli.
Infinitely more sordid was the gigantic fraud spun by Western MSM — to smear China, of course.
If Peng hadn’t made her untimely post, the Empire would have had to invent from scratch something similar. The Beijing Winter Olympics are imminent.
From the Moon of Alabama account below (link):
“And that’s it folks. Zhang Gaoli and Peng Shuai had a years long affair. They loved each other. But after three years they broke up. Peng Shuai has trouble to get over it. Hours later she makes a public post about the issue which she, minutes later, deletes. That’s it.
“Read her post yourself. Nowhere is there any claim of an ‘sexual assault’ in it.
“Nor is there evidence, as the New York Times insinuates, that the somewhat embarrassing post was taken down by a censor and not by Peng Shuai herself. The New York Times makes all that just up.
“The story then made the rounds through other ‘western’ media. To no one’s surprise Peng Shuai has since avoided the public. But that only encouraged the continuation of the ‘western’ media onslaught. Ten days later some self-important person from the World Tennis Association (pushed by whom?) got involved…”
AJ: I read with interest your “Peng adds to China’s troubles” story.
A translation of Peng Shuai’s original post is accessible here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/qmn69a/full_translation_of_peng_shuais_weibo_post/
The relationship between Peng Shuai and Zhao Gaoli is emblematic of power relationships in any country, and in any field (sports, politics, business, government, academia, private relationships). We can see the power dynamics play out in our own personal lives.
Due to cultural differences, I think that using power relationships for sexual advantage is probably much more common in the US than in China (JFK? Clinton? Trump? Hollywood casting couch? Jock culture?). Furthermore, China has a history of punishing sexual misconduct by officials severely, unlike here.
I don’t agree with the censorship of Peng’s Weibo post. It was dumb for them to do so.
On the other hand, it’s deplorable for the Western media to inflate the Peng issue into an overall unnuanced condemnation of China. It’s part of the New Red Scare hysteria.
I applaud you for supporting Black Lives Matter and Colin Kaepernick. Unfortunately, you revert back to racist anti-Chinese stereotypes that are so deeply entrenched in the American psyche in your Peng story.
I doubt very much that you have knowledge of the real China (as opposed to the racist American image of China), or the history of US-China relations. You repeat all the unfounded, exaggerated stereotypes of China. Your perception and “knowledge” about China probably consists of what is repeated in the Establishment’s mainstream media echo chamber.
Your piece refers to Hong Kong, Uighurs, Taiwan. Yet you don’t really know the truth because your understanding/misunderstanding has been skillfully molded by the “Manufacture of Consent”; and not by objective analysis and factual information!
For comparative purposes, Nancy Pelosi concluded that the HK protests (actually, rioting that included extensive vandalism and destruction of public property, not to mention physical violence to HK citizens with whom they disagreed, including burning a man alive!) was a “beautiful sight”. On the other hand, the January 6, 2021 pro-Trump invasion of Congress was an “insurrection”. HK protesters did major physical damage and vandalism to the HK Legislative Council which was described as a “beautiful sight”, while it was an “insurrection” in WDC. You end your piece with “Does the US, scheduled to host the 2028 Olympics, have any moral authority that allows it to shame other Olympic hosts?…not really.”
You are correct in this formulation……but for insufficient reasons. You fail to bring up how our own country has started wars and has spread death and destruction in places like Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Korea, Vietnam. If you call for a boycott of Beijing Olympics, you should–for consistency’s sake–call for a boycott of our own Olympics because our own crimes far exceed any crimes/misdeeds of China.
detailed debunk and rumor-tracing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1BEW4aJf-I
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