A rare scandal involving a former top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official has reverberated across the Chinese internet after a prominent Chinese tennis player’s account of their decade-long relationship went viral on Nov. 2.
Peng Shuai, a former number one ranked tennis doubles player, accused China’s former vice premier, Zhang Gaoli, of sexual coercion, before becoming his mistress. Peng posted the allegation on her verified Twitter-like Weibo account on Tuesday. Although the post was taken down in less than an hour after it was published, a screenshot of the post was widely circulated online.
