WTA stands up to China over Peng Shuai, demonstrates moral leadership desperately needed in West
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Steve Simon, the Chairman and CEO of the WTA, announced the organization would suspend all of its tournaments in mainland China and Hong Kong in response to Beijing's treatment of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai.
Chinese censors quickly removed Peng's post, locked her account, made her name and images unsearchable, and deleted all online discussions of Peng. The Chinese authorities not only wiped out Peng's existence in the digital world, but they made her physically "disappear," too. Hundreds and thousands of Chinese citizens, including China's richest man Jack Ma, have similarly been forcefully "disappeared." But what China didn't expect was an international backlash led by the WTA and its most influential stars.
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