China’s disappeared tennis star emerges … to retract sexual assault allegations against Vice Premier HotAir

The news media and the WTA aren t really the targets of this Orwellian rewriting of history, however. China has likely written off the WTA and any prestige their tournaments provide the Xi regime. This is intended for the sell-outs in Western entertainment and sports conglomerates first to boost the Olympics in February, but longer term to provide cover for the NBA, NFL, and Hollywood corporate boards. Xi knows that they re blinded by dollar signs anyway, and all they need is an excuse to ignore Peng s plight, not to mention the multitudes of Uyghurs in Xi s concentration camps. They ll fall in line at the trough, and Xi knows it.

via hotair.com

This scandal is worth following just for the light it sheds on the ugly leadership of American professional sports and Hollywood.