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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 26, 2021 15:13:23 GMT
I've found this to be a fascinating story, because unlike the Uyghurs, Peng Shuai is a person that people worldwide may actually know about. China thinks we're stupid, and we are. They've done this so many times and nobody gives a shit. I'm hoping that this case will be a turning point, that people will actually start paying attention to where they're spending their money... but I doubt it.
After all, she spoke with president of the IOC! Not the WTA, the organization that actually put up a fuss about her disappearance. Not an organization with the integrity to question when one of their athletes "confesses her mistake," but instead an organization whose president is neck deep in China, who has ties with the man Peng Shuai accused of raping her.
Probably the only thing keeping her family alive right now is the fervor over this, and I hope to God that Biden and any other world leaders that have ever paid lip service to human rights have the balls to boycott the Olympics, because it will send the CCP a message and just maybe do the tiniest bit to change things as a first step.
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Post by cherry68 on Nov 26, 2021 17:45:50 GMT
Boycotting the winter Olympics will mean nothing, like boycotting the Moscow Olympics in 1980 because of Afghanistan invasion. Or the Atlanta ones on the reverse side. They'll simply see that as an opportunity to gain more medals.
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 26, 2021 17:58:04 GMT
Boycotting the winter Olympics will mean nothing, like boycotting the Moscow Olympics in 1980 because of Afghanistan invasion. Or the Atlanta ones on the reverse side. They'll simply see that as an opportunity to gain more medals. I think that the main thing is to boycott all coverage and make it very clear why you're doing that. Make it a political platform. Once it is a platform, you can start towards actual economic actions. That's my hope. The boycott in and of itself means nothing, but it sends a message to your own people, and in ten years or twenty, maybe real change will happen because you took a stand and made a big fuss.
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Post by cherry68 on Nov 26, 2021 19:08:05 GMT
Boycotting the winter Olympics will mean nothing, like boycotting the Moscow Olympics in 1980 because of Afghanistan invasion. Or the Atlanta ones on the reverse side. They'll simply see that as an opportunity to gain more medals. I think that the main thing is to boycott all coverage and make it very clear why you're doing that. Make it a political platform. Once it is a platform, you can start towards actual economic actions. That's my hope. The boycott in and of itself means nothing, but it sends a message to your own people, and in ten years or twenty, maybe real change will happen because you took a stand and made a big fuss. Let's not forget China and the US still have the Taiwan issue. I'm afraid this girl will be sacrificed.
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 24, 2021 22:34:17 GMT
Blink sixty times a minute if you're being held hostage...
The best part is the ending: she's asked by this "journalist" if she can go out alone in her leisure time, and she just says "oh hey, look at the time, gotta go!" and bolts for the exit.
Other points of interest: Those are a LOT of cuts, huh? In a classic delaying tactic, she keeps asking for questions to be repeated while she formulates a response. She denies that she ever made any sexual assault allegations and IN THE SAME BREATH admits that she made that Weibo post - a post that doesn't allow for ambiguity. I don't speak Chinese, but at 4:20 she appears to misunderstand a question that was probably supposed to be answered with "yes." (At least, if this is at all like conversational English.) She looks off camera to someone else and replies that she can't remember when she held the IOC interviews and moves back to ground she's familiar with: thanking some IOC people, which is safe territory. She says that her English is bad, which, um... isn't true. She speaks with a heavy accent, but she seems to think very quickly and clearly in English.
To compare and contrast this interview with her (the top result when I searched "peng shuai interview").
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