{"id":39068,"date":"2021-11-20T00:10:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/19\/wtas-hardline-approach-to-peng-shuai-presents-china-with-new-problem"},"modified":"2021-11-20T00:10:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:10:33","slug":"wtas-hardline-approach-to-peng-shuai-presents-china-with-new-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39068","title":{"rendered":"WTA\u2019s hardline approach to Peng Shuai presents China with new problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Up to now sports associations have rapidly backed down from rows with Beijing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/nov\/19\/the-disappearance-of-peng-shuai-what-happened-to-the-chinese-tennis-star\">Where is Peng Shuai?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is perhaps no coincidence that Chinese state media published an email purportedly written by the missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/nov\/16\/us-reportedly-plans-diplomatic-boycott-of-chinas-winter-olympics\">reports emerged<\/a> that the Biden administration was considering a \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of February\u2019s Winter Olympics in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>China says the Games are apolitical and \u2013 in the words of its embassy in Washington \u2013 \u201ca grand gathering for countries and a fair stage for athletes from all over the world to compete\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/19\/wtas-hardline-approach-to-peng-shuai-presents-china-with-new-problem\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Up to now sports associations have rapidly backed down from rows with BeijingWhere is Peng Shuai?It is perhaps no coincidence that Chinese state media published an email purportedly written by the missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai shortl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,2427,203,2409,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-peng-shuai","category-sport","category-tennis","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39068","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39069,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39068\/revisions\/39069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}