Thread by @StephenMcDonell

Why is the cursor visible in this screenshot? Who’s taken that screenshot and when? Who sent it? #China #PengShuai #ZhangGaoli

https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1461025491842916358

Also people will be analysing the tone of this language to see if it really sounds like it is being written by someone who is alright. #China #PengShuai #ZhangGaoli

If #PengShuai has written to Steve Simon, the WTA chairman, why does it begin “Hello everyone...”?

Now obviously this document, said to be an email from #PengShuai, and the comments she originally made on her Weibo account alleging sexual assault by #ZhangGaoli can’t both be right. Why did it take so long for this supposed email from her to appear?

I don’t think I have seen any other media outlets in #China reporting on this alleged message from #PengShua? Only @CGTNOfficial is that right?

And now we’re at this stage...

Having broadcast forced confessions before from people in custody in #China, some at @CGTNOfficial do not have a good record dealing with material like this. #PengShuai #ZhangGaoli

‘The head of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has cast doubt on an email released by Chinese state media attributed to tennis player #PengShuai. Steve Simon said... he had a "hard time believing" the email was written by Ms Peng or on her behalf’. bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

‘Steve Simon, chairman of the WTA, said the message "only raises" his concerns about Ms Peng's safety.
"I have a hard time believing that Peng Shuai actually wrote the email we received or believes what is being attributed to her...’ #PengShuai #ZhangGaoli

This is also a very good question:

https://twitter.com/nectar_gan/status/1461139349219667975

If whoever ordered the “Ive just been resting at home” #PengShuai document to be posted by @CGTNOfficial thought this might reduce the pressure on #China’s Government to confirm her safety, they were wrong. It’s done the opposite. Here’s another 10 million people aware of it:

https://twitter.com/serenawilliams/status/1461408866697105413

Somebody else from the Communist Party’s media has spoken about #PengShuai. The Editor of the Global Times has made this contribution regarding “the thing people talked about”...

https://twitter.com/huxijin_gt/status/1461368950495739906

Aaaaand 20 million more people aware of #WhereIsPengShuai care of Barca’s Gerard Pique...

https://twitter.com/3gerardpique/status/1461372672915427339

#PengShuai #ZhangGaoli and the #Beijing Winter Olympics:

https://twitter.com/StephenWadeAP/status/1461187978223439875

#PengShuai #ZhangGaoli the IOC @iocmedia and the coming #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics.

https://twitter.com/StephenWadeAP/status/1461187979611807744

Re the language in the email said to have been written by #PengShuai the repetition that her “consent” should be given is an expression used a lot by #China’s Communist Party officials. Eg apparent lack of “consent” is used as an excuse to stop journalists filming in the street.

Now Andy Murray. This @cgtn #PengShuai tweet has turned into a train wreck for the Chinese Government.

https://twitter.com/andy_murray/status/1461606490444378121

And if the government of #China thought the #WhereIsPengShuai meltdown could not get any worse...

https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1461456232665927684

The apologists have been very thin on the ground the last couple of days. I mean really you’d be crazy to stick your neck out on this one but there’s always someone...

https://twitter.com/billiejeanking/status/1461498253611094021

Now the #UN! #China #PengShuai

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1461649003767304192