According to the Nikkei Asian Review, despite the scandal, Zhang Gaoli’s photos will still be displayed at the Beijing Winter Olympics in February next year.
The Nikkei Shimbun reporter was invited to participate in a media tour organized by the Chinese Communist government and confirmed on Tuesday (December 21) that Zhang Gaoli’s photo will appear in the upcoming Olympic Games.
Zhang Gaoli’s photo was taken in the rest area of the Zhangjiakou Ski Resort in Hebei Province in 2017. Zhang was responsible for the preparations for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Zhang Gaoli is 75 years old. Peng Shuai, a Chinese female tennis player, posted on his Weibo account on November 2 this year (2021), accusing Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. After 20 minutes, the post was deleted by the CCP censorship and became popular in China. Searches for Peng Shuai’s name on social media platforms will be blocked, and Peng Shuai himself will disappear from public view, but the news will still be posted online soon. The world is paying more and more attention to her whereabouts. Steve Simon, the president of the World Women’s Professional Tennis Association (WTA), suspended all competitions in China because of concerns about Peng Shuai’s safety.
The CCP arranges for Peng Shuai to make a public appearance to overturn allegations
Regarding the sexual assault of Peng Shuai, Zhang Gaoli has not made a public appearance or statement, but the Chinese Communist Party has recently arranged for Peng Shuai to perform a play.
On December 19, Peng Shuai made a comment to the outside world for the first time in an interview with Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao after the sexual assault scandal. She said that she had never accused anyone of sexual assault and that her post on Weibo earlier last month was misunderstood. Up.
The New York Times reported on December 20 that Peng Shuai overturned allegations of sexual assault, which aroused more suspicion and concern. CCP officials may have been using conventional means to pressure her and use her as a target of propaganda activities.
In November of this year, Peng Shuai posted a post on China’s social media platform Weibo, clearly stating that Zhang Gaoli, now 75, forced her to have sex and maintained an intermittent relationship for several years. She said that when she had a relationship about three years ago, she “never agreed” and “has been crying.”
An interview with the United Times was the first time Peng Shuai talked about the Zhang Gaoli incident in front of the camera.
The commentary account LT Horizon commented that although Peng Shuai emphasized that the outside world had misunderstood in the interview, she also affirmed that her Weibo open letter on November 2 was written by Peng Shuai himself, “This will allow the Peng Shuai incident to continue to ferment.’Foreign media’ One hundred secrets and one sparse”.
Public information shows that Zhang Gaoli transferred the secretary of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee in 1997. In February 2000, the then party leader Jiang Zemin visited Guangdong and delivered a so-called “Three Represents” speech in Maoming, where Zhang Gaoli served at the time. In 2001, Zhang Ji was transferred to the governor of Shandong.
In 2006, Jiang Zemin, who had abdicated, wanted to ascend Mount Tai. Regardless of the May 1st holiday, Zhang Gaoli, then secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, ordered Mount Tai to “close the mountain for two days” and asked the local officials to “welcome” in a line with a special eight-person sedan chair. Lifting the river up the mountain, he followed closely behind.
In March 2007, Zhang Gaoli was transferred as secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and became a member of the Politburo. He was promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee in 2012, left Tianjin, and was appointed Deputy Prime Minister at the 2013 Chinese Communist Party Congress.
In 2015, Zhang Gaoli began to take charge of the preparatory work for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics as the leader of the leading group.
Zhang Gaoli, who was born as a commoner, gradually flourished, and his family has also become a member of the CCP’s emerging powerful family. In the “Panama Documents” exposed in April 2016, Zhang Gaoli’s son-in-law Li Shengpo was revealed to have three offshore companies and a Hong Kong ID card.
The CCP is in an embarrassing situation
Taiwanese media “Liberty Times” reported on December 22 that the news that Zhang Gaoli’s publicity photos will appear at the Beijing Winter Olympics may renew global attention to the human rights situation in China.
The White House officially announced on December 6 that the United States will launch diplomacy against the Beijing Winter Olympics, which will open on February 4 next year (2022), because it cannot accept the “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” the CCP has launched against Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Boycott, that is, do not send government officials and diplomatic representatives to Beijing to attend any Winter Olympic ceremonies or celebrations, but the US Winter Olympic team can still participate as usual.
After the United States announced its “diplomatic boycott” of the Beijing Winter Olympics, some of its allies, Britain, Australia and Canada of the Five Eyes Alliance joined the ranks of the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also stated on December 16 that he “has no plan” to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics in February next year.
In an interview with Voice of America, Professor Fukuda Maru of the Faculty of Law of Hosei University in Japan stated that Japan must stand firm on the CCP’s human rights record, showing that Japan is also concerned about the deterioration of human rights in China.
Taiwanese media “Wind Media” commented that Zhang Gaoli may never have thought that the Winter Olympics, which he invested heavily in mental preparations in the last few years of his tenure, would one day be strongly boycotted because of himself.
In addition, the “exhibition” of Zhang Gaoli’s photos at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is likely to put the CCP into an embarrassing situation.
The Epoch Times analysis pointed out that the CCP authorities expect the Winter Olympics to be the same as the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a showcase for the CCP’s “achievements.” But it is undeniable that the scandal of Zhang Gaoli’s sexual assault on Peng Shuai will make the Winter Olympics a booth to showcase the CCP’s internal corruption, fornication, and infighting.
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