By Andréa Worden, March 29, 2022
Originally published on the China Change website
In sharp contrast with the beginning of the 2022 tennis season, we haven’t heard much from players or fans with respect to Peng Shuai’s plight. The “Where is Peng Shuai?” t-shirt campaign at the Australian Open in January, which drew global attention to Peng Shuai’s silencing and disappearance by Chinese authorities, has not been repeated since. Perhaps some players and fans accepted the International Olympic Committee’s propaganda spectacle (orchestrated by the Chinese Communist Party) at the Beijing Olympics in February, in which Peng Shuai made several carefully stage-managed and scripted appearances to signal that she was fine, and that she had not disappeared.
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