{"id":39041,"date":"2021-11-19T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T03:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/19\/peng-shuai-wta-prepared-to-pull-out-of-china-over-tennis-stars-disappearance"},"modified":"2021-11-20T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T07:44:27","slug":"peng-shuai-wta-prepared-to-pull-out-of-china-over-tennis-stars-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39041","title":{"rendered":"UN and White House call on China to give proof of Peng Shuai\u2019s whereabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men\u2019s world No 1 Novak Djokovic has also raised concerns as the WTA threatens to pull events out of China<\/p>\n<p>The UN has called on Chinese authorities to give proof of the whereabouts of tennis star Peng Shuai, as the White House said it was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d and the Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) said it was prepared to pull its tournaments out of China over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Peng, a former doubles world No 1, has not been seen in public since she<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/nov\/14\/wta-calls-on-china-to-investigate-allegations-by-peng-shuai-of-assault\"> accused the former high-ranking official Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault<\/a> on 2 November.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/19\/peng-shuai-wta-prepared-to-pull-out-of-china-over-tennis-stars-disappearance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men\u2019s world No 1 Novak Djokovic has also raised concerns as the WTA threatens to pull events out of ChinaThe UN has called on Chinese authorities to give proof of the whereabouts of tennis star Peng Shuai, as the White House said it was \u201cdeeply con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,50,2427,2409,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-peng-shuai","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\/39041","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39152,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39041\/revisions\/39152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}