.@jasongay weighs in on Peng Shuai: "The IOC…may think it has done a laudable bit of statecraft here, providing clarity on Peng’s whereabouts, but now there is fresh mystery. Is the IOC applying leverage? Or is it a partner to state choreography?"
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@jasongay "This is the price of business—a price the IOC appears willing to pay as the Winter Games…organizers stubbornly stick to the plan. It’s the fraught sort of bargain that gets made as fewer hosts are willing to pay the absurd and escalating bill."
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@jasongay "The Winter Games aren’t coming to Beijing in February because it makes a lot of sense. They’re coming because the Winter Games didn’t have a lot of options."
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@jasongay "It's essential to remember the person at the center of this, who is not a brand or a business, but a woman who appeared to have taken an extraordinary step of challenging power…Peng Shuai is who is owed here. She must not only be seen, but fully heard."
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