"I need to stress one point that is extremely important, I have never said or written that anyone has sexually assaulted me," the Chinese tennis star said in a foreign press video.
A former Interpol head, a billionaire tech mogul, and journalists are among those who have vanished from the radar after rubbing the China government the wrong way.
After tennis star Peng Shuai made sexual assault allegations against an ex-vice premier, she was not seen for two weeks. Here are some other prominent Chinese figures who mysteriously vanished before reappearing later.
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