Peng Shuai
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On November 2, the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai publicly accused on social media a former vice-premier of China of sexual assault. Chinese authorities responded by taking down her posts and engaging in a mass campaign of censorship on Chinese social media. Later on, Peng disappeared from public view, prompting many tennis stars, athletes and others to demand answers about where she was. It's a long saga that ended with the Women's Tennis Association suspending all tournaments in China in a major move that cut against the trend of Western companies ignoring abuses committed at the hands of the Chinese government. Jacob Schulz sat down with Julian Ku, the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor in Constitutional Law and Professor of Law at Hofstra University, and Katrina Northrop, a reporter at The Wire China, to talk through what's happened to Peng Shuai and what to make of it.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:31.2 | Right laptop, I'm ready to finish this thesis. |
| 0:34.2 | What thesis? |
| 0:35.2 | The one I've spent two years working on. |
| 0:36.7 | Don't have it. |
| 0:37.7 | What's the last version you saved? |
| 0:39.4 | Got final version, final final version, and no, I'm actually serious now. |
| 0:42.9 | This is the last version I will never save another version I promise, version two. |
| 0:46.7 | Surely that one? |
| 0:47.7 | No. |
| 0:48.7 | Why? |
| 0:49.7 | It's corrupted. |
| 0:50.7 | Oh, thanks. |
| 1:01.5 | Saved it again. |
| 1:08.6 | There were these counter narratives that were produced by these Chinese state media people |
| 1:15.5 | on social media, so they said things like the West is actually limiting Pung's freedom |
| 1:22.0 | and the Western concern about her was self-serving and you know, it's just to criticize China. |
| 1:29.3 | So these fake accounts were interfacing with those narratives and the government was doing |
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