{"id":39431,"date":"2021-12-02T19:48:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T10:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/02\/china-hits-back-at-wta-boycott-as-ioc-talks-again-to-peng-shuai"},"modified":"2021-12-02T19:48:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T10:48:36","slug":"china-hits-back-at-wta-as-ioc-says-it-has-spoken-again-to-peng-shuai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39431","title":{"rendered":"China hits back at WTA as IOC says it has spoken again to Peng Shuai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministry criticises tennis boycott, saying it is against \u2018acts that politicise sports\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China has attacked the Women\u2019s Tennis Association\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/dec\/01\/wta-suspends-tournaments-china-peng-shuai-tennis\">boycott<\/a> in response to the treatment of Peng Shuai, as the International Olympic Committee claimed to have had a second video chat with the player.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Wenbin, a foreign ministry spokesperson, said at a daily briefing that his government was \u201calways firmly opposed to acts that politicise sports\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/02\/china-hits-back-at-wta-boycott-as-ioc-talks-again-to-peng-shuai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministry criticises tennis boycott, saying it is against \u2018acts that politicise sports\u2019China has attacked the Women\u2019s Tennis Association\u2019s boycott in response to the treatment of Peng Shuai, as the International Olympic Committee claimed to have&#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":[41,50,2206,2427,203,2409,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-international-olympic-committee","category-peng-shuai","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\/39431","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=39431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39432,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39431\/revisions\/39432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}