{"id":400849,"date":"2021-11-22T21:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T21:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/nov\/23\/china-must-answer-serious-questions-about-tennis-star-peng-shuai-australia-says"},"modified":"2021-11-22T21:57:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T21:57:36","slug":"china-must-answer-serious-questions-about-tennis-star-peng-shuai-australia-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/22\/china-must-answer-serious-questions-about-tennis-star-peng-shuai-australia-says\/","title":{"rendered":"China must answer serious questions about tennis star Peng Shuai, Australia says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights activists step up calls for diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/audio\/2021\/nov\/23\/chinas-metoo-movement\">Full Story podcast: China\u2019s #MeToo movement<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Chinese authorities must answer serious concerns about the tennis star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/audio\/2021\/nov\/23\/chinas-metoo-movement\">Peng Shuai<\/a>\u2019s welfare, the Australian government has said.<\/p><p>The intervention comes as human rights activists and an independent senator step up calls for Australia to join a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over broader allegations of rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/nov\/23\/china-must-answer-serious-questions-about-tennis-star-peng-shuai-australia-says\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/nov\/23\/china-must-answer-serious-questions-about-tennis-star-peng-shuai-australia-says\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights activists step up calls for diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter OlympicsFull Story podcast: China\u2019s #MeToo movementChinese authorities must answer serious concerns about the tennis star Peng Shuai\u2019s welfare, the Australian government has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,1340,1208,1730,190,6,32463,38779,1338,2030,29567,1641,31551,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400850,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400849\/revisions\/400850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}