Beijing: “Peng case politicized and deliberately fueled”

“I think some people should deliberately and maliciously stop feeding, not to say politicize, this case.” Thus the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lijian answered a question about the consequences for China’s international image of the case of the Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, of which there is no news since the beginning of November, after the woman denounced. of having been sexually assaulted by former Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Gaoli. Zhao’s comment was the Chinese government’s most direct response to the Peng case. Until now, Beijing had repeatedly ignored questions about where he was and his condition, saying it was not “a diplomatic matter”.