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A growing number of athletes and politicians have raised questions about Chinese tennis champion Peng Shuai, who hasn’t been seen since she accused a senior Communist Party leader of sexual assault, amid diplomatic pressure on Beijing’s Winter Olympics. Peng’s situation also puts the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in an uncomfortable spot, as Beijing faces international attention on its upcoming Winter Games in February 2022. U.S. President Joe Biden is under pressure from the U.S. Congress to diplomatically boycott the event over human rights concerns. Five British MPs who have previously been sanctioned by Beijing wrote to U.K. Prime Minister Boris...
