“Going to Tokyo Olympics will not be easy. I plan to go back to the big game in May the World Championships.” Zhang JikeĪfter completing his grand-slam in 2016, Ma Long knows that he is looking at a tough road ahead. My favourite place is the competition field. It is not to say that I will recover 100 percent, I am trying to get back to the status before my injury. Zhang Jike is looking to put the injuries of 2016 behind him as this year’s tournament schedule commences. Talking to media during the awards night, the Chinese athletes were keenly focused on 2017 and beyond. This should come as no surprise as Zhang Jike’s followers boomed in 2016, more than tripling to three million in a matter of days as he became a trending topic during the Rio Olympic Games. The spotlight was on Zhang Jike as he was announced as one of the most influential people of the year on Weibo. Now in its thirteenth year, Sina’s Weibo, China’s most popular microblogging website, hosted the evening and broadcast the event live online.Ĭhina’s national table tennis team was well represented on the night. "But even if it is like throwing an egg against rock, or if I am like a moth drawn to the flame, inviting self-destruction, I will tell the truth about you.China’s biggest social media celebrities stepped out of the digital world and in to the glitz and glamour of the evening, hoping to claim titles such as “Biggest Topics of the Year”, “Hottest Weibo Person of the Year’ and “Weibo King and Queen”. "I know that for someone of your stature, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, you have said that you are not afraid," Peng wrote in her post. Peng's case will almost certainly not be heard in court or even publicly acknowledged. The movement has floundered in part because of the high legal burden of proof required in courts to prove sexual assault and because of the political pressure brought to bear on accusers. But in 2018, the year Zhang retired from the government, Peng claims he got back in touch with her and the two began a tumultuous but consensual romantic relationship which ended when he cut off all contact.Ĭhina's faltering #MeToo movement has toppled journalists, academics and workers for non-governmental organizations, but it had not touched China's ruling Communist Party until now. Peng says Zhang did not contact her for several years after the initial assault. The two women then won the doubles French Open the following year. In 2013, she won Wimbledon's doubles championship with her partner, Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei. Peng was also ascending professionally as China's top doubles tennis player. Tianjin racked up huge amounts of debt to do so, and many of the buildings remain empty, but Zhang was professionally rewarded for the project, moving on in 2012 to become the country's vice premier - and until 2017, a member of the Communist Party's powerful ruling body, the Politburo Standing Committee. Goats and Soda Court Ruling Deals A Blow To China's Faltering #MeToo Movement
"I have not heard of this issue, and it is not a diplomatic question," said a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry during a press briefing Wednesday. There was no official comment on the matter. In her post, Peng said she had preserved no evidence of her relationship with Zhang or of his alleged assault. Neither Peng nor Zhang could be reached for comment. It is the first such accusation against a senior Communist Party official. Now she has also launched one of China's most explosive #MeToo allegations yet against Zhang Gaoli, 75, a retired party official who once occupied the highest rungs of political power in China. Peng, 35, is one of the country's most well-known tennis athletes. "I never gave consent, crying the entire time." "I was so scared that afternoon," Peng Shuai wrote in her post on the Chinese social media site Weibo. In a social media post on Tuesday, she described her alleged assault ten years ago at the hands of one of the country's most powerful Communist Party officials, Zhang Gaoli.īai Xue/Xinhua News Agency via Getty ImagesīEIJING – In a long, confessional social media post on Tuesday night, a celebrated Chinese athlete described her alleged assault ten years ago at the hands of one of the country's most powerful Communist Party officials at the time, which she says happened while someone stood guard outside the bedroom door. Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne in 2020.
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