2014: Peng Shuai #彭帅 28, atop @WTA, training at Tianjin Tennis Center #天津网球中心—Zhang Gaoli #张高丽 68, a top 7 🇨🇳 PSC leader—when their sex began.

FFWD 7yrs: Abuse claims, WTA suspends play—China impacts TBD at #Beijing2022 #冬奥会 & 20th PC #二十大. #MeToo #米兔 #我也是

https://twitter.com/YaxueCao/status/1465971963751550981

For a line-by-line, Chinese-to-English translation of Peng Shuai’s #彭帅 2 Nov Weibo post discussing her relationship w/fmr Politburo Standing Committee, Vice Premier #副总理, Zhang Gaoli #张高丽 see ⬇️:

#MeToo #米兔 #我也是 #WhereIsPengShuai #PengShuai #Tennis #WTA #Beijing2022

https://twitter.com/AsiaSkyMedia/status/1466310191335444480

So far, China’s authorities have announced an unimaginable death toll of only ~33 dead & 8 missing in the Henan floods (contrast w/Germany flooding ~180 ppl lost). Some Weibo msg tracking reveals at least ~1,000 dead via photos/comment… #ChinaFloods #河南 #郑州 #洪水 #Zhengzhou Post-flood scenes like this in Zhengzhou, solidify that despite CPC govt ‘positive energy’ #正能量 cleanup vibes—unlikely we’ll see accurate flood casualty numbers associated w/the tragedy that impacted cities like Zhengzhou #郑州, and its ~11M citizens.

Horrible to see flood devastation from the heavy rains (~year’s worth of rain in 3 days, >617mm) in Zhengzhou #郑州—20 July 2021 panorama view of Henan’s #河南 provincial capital city. (郑州市被淹全景). A city of ~11M residents—death toll remains unknown. What some refer to as the cradle of Chinese civilization—Henan #河南 has seen it’s heaviest rains in 1,000yrs. Dozens of cities are flooded w/unknown death toll. PLA has issued a warning that Luoyang’s #洛阳 Yihetan dam #伊河滩大坝 (west of Zhengzhou) could collapse at any time".

Backlash in China state media outlets that previously feted the 1st female Asian film director (Chloé Zhao #赵婷) to win a Golden Globe #金球奖 for best director this past Sunday—China now questions Zhao’s “Chinese cred”—despite being born in Beijing in 1982. #Nomadland #无依之地

https://twitter.com/variety/status/1367918942375702529

[Describing why] she was drawn to early American heartland subjects b/c of her China upbringing—and “being in a place where there are lies everywhere”—2013 Filmmaker Magazine interview excerpt Chloé Zhao #赵婷 gave poss causing CCP censors to rethink support #Nomadland #无依之地

While many remark about Biden’s past rels w/China—Fmr USDOT Sec & wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Elaine Chao #赵小兰 repeatedly used her office staff over the past 4yrs. to help her family’s Foremost Group #福茂
shipping business w/extensive ties to China.

https://twitter.com/pekingmike/status/1367289430923476992

Published 2 March 2021 USDOT Inspector General report on fmr Secretary of Transportation #USDOT Elaine Chao’s #赵小兰 poss conflicts of interests in her interactions w/China (given her father’s Foremost Group #福茂 shipping firm’s heavy reliance on China). oig.dot.gov/sites/default/…

“In the last quarter century—there’ve only been seven truly new vaccines introduced globally into clinical practice.”—@Merck CEO Ken Frazier w/#Harvard Business School’s @tsedal on the grave disservice done to the public w/over promising a #COVID19 vaccine “You’re one of four African American CEOs in the #Fortune500—does it make a difference to ‘our ppl’ that you’re in the room?”—@Merck CEO Ken Frazier w/#Harvard Business School’s @tsedal discussing the issue of race in America post-#GeorgeFloyd
nb: @wkamaubell @staceyabrams

“The greatest long term threat to our nation’s information & intellectual property & to our economic vitality is the #counterintelligence & economic espionage threat from China.” —Christopher Wray, #FBI Dir on the significance of China’s threat to the US (& its allies) #IPTheft

https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/1280531016180998146

“If you think this is just an intel issue, govt prob or nuisance just for big corps—you couldn’t be more wrong. It’s the [Americans] who’re the victims of what amounts to Chinese theft on a scale so massive—it reps one of the largest transfers of wealth in history.”—#FBI Dir Wray

https://twitter.com/wes_andrews/status/1128972439088533504