Former world No. 1 tennis doubles player Peng Shuai (彭帥), one of China’s biggest sporting stars who has won titles alongside Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei (謝淑薇), has publicly accused a former Chinese vice premier of forcing her into sex several years ago in a social media post that was later deleted.
According to a screenshot of her verified Sina Weibo account late on Tuesday, Peng said that Zhang Gaoli (張高麗), who was a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee the country’s top decisionmaking body coerced her into sex and they later had an on-off consensual relationship.
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PRC government bans Tesla vehicles: sources
Reuters, BEIJING
Employees at some Chinese government offices have been told not to park their Tesla Inc vehicles inside government compounds due to security concerns over their cameras, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
The people said officials of at least two government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai have been instructed verbally by supervisors not to park their Tesla vehicles at work.
It was not clear how many vehicles were affected, the people said, declining to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Tesla vehicles are parked outside a building at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound during a meeting between Tesla chief executive Elon Musk and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on Jan. 9, 2019.
Chinese Official Condemns Systemic Racism in U.S., Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans
On 4/6/21 at 4:34 PM EDT
A Chinese official denounced on Tuesday the ongoing anti-Asian violence that has sparked demonstrations across the U.S., discussing it in the context of systemic racism.
Zhao Lijian, a spokesman at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, called on U.S. leadership to earnestly honor its commitment to protecting human rights and cracking down on discrimination and hate crimes, in remarks delivered during his press conference. In recent years, hate crimes against Asians and other ethnic minorities in the U.S. has been on the rise, leading to many tragedies, said Zhao, pointing specifically to the ways in which racist and xenophobic rhetoric from former President Donald Trump likely contributed to increased anti-Asian sentiment since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.