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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