Australian Tennis Officials Flip-Flop On Anti-China Protests Summit News

As we reported yesterday, the shirts and banner read Where is Peng Shuai? , referring to the previous disappearance of the Chinese tennis star who had accused a high ranking CCP official of sexually assaulting her.

After not being seen for weeks, Shuai reappeared looking worse for wear and immediately retracted the assault claims.

Tennis Australia officials attempted to seize the signs and have the spectators take off the shirts, saying that it s a condition of entry at the tournament to not brandish political slogans .

However, after a huge backlash garnered media attention, and the likes of tennis legend Martina Navratilova calling Tennis Australia s actions cowardly, officials have flip flopped.

TA head Craig Tiley told the Australian Financial Review that those wearing the Where is Peng Shuai? t-shirts would be allowed to enter on the condition that they were not coming as a mob to be disruptive but are peaceful.

via summit.news

This story was on NPR this morning. It’s good to know that the rape and subsequent cover-up by the coercion of the victim by a high Communist party official is still a bi-partisan issue. Maybe there’s hope!