New York TimesInvents 'Sexual Assault' #MeToo Case To Blame China
The 'news' over last years have again and again demonstrated thenotorious unreliability of woke 'western' media.
To those U.S. centric stories one must add all the false claims made about foreign countries - see Syria and Belarus for recent example. One then finds that the media do not report but, as Sullivan writes,"make the news fit the broader political fight".
There is currently a push for a boycott of the winter Olympics in Beijing. Western media are busy to push for an anti-China angle of the games. Their aim is a political boycott so no one 'in good standing' dares to visit them.
On November 2, by timely chance, some well known Chinese sportswoman posted a sad story about the end of her love affair with a once powerful older man on the Chinese social media site Weibo. That post was soon taken down, likely by the woman herself, but that was too late to prevent that the 'woke' western media and Olympic boycott campaigners made a hash out of it.
A day after the post was published and unpublished theNew York Timesmangled the facts to make it into a 'woke' anti-China story:
A Chinese Tennis Star Accuses a Former Top Leader ofSexual Assault
Peng Shuai’s accusation against Zhang Gaoli takes the country’s budding #MeToo movement to the top echelons of the Communist Party for the first time.
Where is the headlined 'sexual assault' one might ask. TheNYTpiece wont say:
As it turns out no 'assault' had happened. Moreover Peng Shuai never alleged that an 'assault' happened. TheNew York Timesmade that up!
A full English language translation of Peng Shuai's Weibo postcan be found here.
Peng Shuai, who is 35, had an unusual relationship with a married man who is 40 years older than she is. They first started to have consensual sex a decade ago and that affair kept going for a while until the man got promoted:
The man, Zhang Gaoli, was in a new powerful position where any scandal would have had serious consequences for him, anyone involved, the party and the country.
But he had not forgotten Peng Shuai and as soon as he retired he again contacted her:
She did not want to have sex that afternoon and she nowhere claims that they had sex that afternoon. He asked for sex. She said no. Nothing happened. She stayed for dinner:
She agreed, they had sex, and a lot of affection for each other:
Does anyone see an 'assault' accusation in that?
Zhang Gaoli is married and has two grown up kids. His wife knew of his affair with Peng Shuai but seems to have put up with it. (China has, just like France, some traditional tolerance for having mistresses.) The relation was otherwise kept secret. At the end of last month the affair unfortunately ended in disharmony.
And that's it folks. Zhang Gaoli and Peng Shuai had a years long affair. They loved each other. But after three years they broke up. Peng Shuai has trouble to get over it. Hours later she makes a public post about the issue which she, minutes later, deletes. That's it.
Read her post yourself.Nowhere is there any claim of an 'sexual assault' in it.
Nor is there evidence, as theTimesinsinuates, that the somewhat embarrassing post was taken down by a censor and not by Peng Shuai herself. TheNew York Timesmakes all that just up.
The story then made the rounds through other 'western' media.
To no ones surprise Peng Shuai has since avoided the public. But that only encouraged the continuation of the 'western' media onslaught.
Ten days later some self-important man from the Women's Tennis Association (pushed by whom?)got involved:
What please is there to investigate about a consensual affair between a prominent man and a prominent woman in China? Nothing of course but soon everyone with a name in tennis felt that they had to step in. The WTA even released a statement on its site (which I can no longer find).
Yesterday Peng Shuai responded to Mr. Simon's claims with an email which she also made public:
The email says: "The news in that [WTA] release, including the allegations of sexual assault, is not true. I'm not missing, nor am I unsafe."
In the email Peng Shuai also sensibly asks to confirm any further WTA statement about her with herself. Something that should have been understood in the first place.
Too late - the notorious liars at theNew York Timesonly use the email tofurther their political bidding:
Note again that Peng Shuai original post DOES NOT CLAIM that there was any assault. There are no '#MeToo' accusations against Zhang Gaoli, only a sad outcry of a woman at the end of a consensual affair.
In her email Peng Shuai explicitly confirms that there are no sexual assault accusations. TheTimeshas no evidence that the 'email purportedly written by Ms. Peng herself' was not written by herself. Why does it insinuate that?
TheTimeshas presented exactly zero evidence that any 'assault' has happened. Peng Shuai has never claimed that any 'assault' happened. She then explicitly denied it. But theTimes"makes the news fit the broader political fight". Its target in that fight, supported by Mr. Simon, is China.
And that folks is exactly what theNew York Timeswanted to happen.
The screed continues with quoting 'experts' from the anti-China Lowry Institute, a Chinese 'activist' living in the United States, several tennis players who misjudge the non existing case based on the falseNYTreports, the discredited Human Rights Watch and some anti-Chinese writer in Australia.
To repeat it again. Some grown up woman made a social media post in which she was sad about the end of a years long love affair. Minutes later she, or someone else, takes the post down. Screenshots however had been made and continued to circle.
There are no accusations of an assault in her post. She says that one afternoon she did not consent to have sex and she does not claim to have had any sex at that time. Later, in the evening, she consented to have sex and the night reignited a dormant love affair that continued for three years. After the issue becomes public an email by Peng Shuai explicitly confirms that there are no accusations of a sexual assault. Without any evidence that the reasonable email is fake its provenance gets questioned.
The claim of an 'assault' was completely made up between the ears of someNew York Timeswriters. To call them liars is an understatement. They lie, invent and manipulate 'facts' for nefarious reasons:
No, the MSN did not not get those wrong. It willfully manipulated the news on those cases. It invented 'facts' which were free of any evidence. It created big piles of bullshit.
The Peng Shuai 'assault' case is just another one of those.
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