public life for morning a month after she accused a top communist party leader of sexual assault. an e-mail purportedly from peng was released by chinese state media several weeks later claiming everything is fine. state media then distributed images of peng attending a youth tournament in beijing on november 20th. neither the images nor e-mail could be independently verified. concern over peng s safety has been building and this week reached a breaking point. on wednesday the women s tennis association announced a suspension of all tournaments in china. the communist party s response to peng s accusations seem to have back fired spectacularly. and the fascinating piece in the new york times suggests they could even be fueling a feminist movement in that authoritarian country. joining me now is the author of the op-ed. thanks so much for coming on the show tonight. in your piece you write, quote, the upper echelons of the chinese communist party have been largely impenetrable to scan