Peng’s retraction sparks new quest • Table.Briefings

For the first time, Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai gave an interview about her claims of sexual assault against a high-ranking party official. She called it a misunderstanding, which raises new questions.

World-class Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has distanced herself from her rape allegations against former Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli. A roughly four-minute-long video from last Sunday, which has been circulating on social media since the start of the week, shows the 35-year-old talking to a Singaporean journalist. In it, Peng stated that „I have never said that I wrote that anyone sexually assaulted me“.

Peng’s retraction sparks new questions

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