{"id":38608,"date":"2021-11-04T00:11:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/tennis-star-peng-shuai-accuses-chinese-communist-party-official-zhang-gaoli-of-sexual-assault"},"modified":"2021-11-04T00:11:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:11:50","slug":"tennis-star-accuses-chinese-ruling-party-official-of-metoo-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38608","title":{"rendered":"Tennis star accuses Chinese ruling party official of #MeToo abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online censors blocked Peng Shuai\u2019s post on Weibo of Zhang Gaoli\u2019s alleged assault over several years<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has apparently accused a former vice-premier of sexual assault, engulfing the highest echelons of Beijing\u2019s ruling Communist party in a #MeToo scandal for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities scrambled to stop the allegations from spreading, with online censors even appearing to block the word \u201ctennis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/tennis-star-peng-shuai-accuses-chinese-communist-party-official-zhang-gaoli-of-sexual-assault\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online censors blocked Peng Shuai\u2019s post on Weibo of Zhang Gaoli\u2019s alleged assault over several yearsThe Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has apparently accused a former vice-premier of sexual assault, engulfing the highest echelons of Beijing\u2019s ruling C&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,336,203,2409,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-sexual-harassment","category-sport","category-tennis","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38609,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608\/revisions\/38609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}