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The IOC says Peng Shuai is safe. Experts say the IOC has become a vehicle for Chinese propaganda The International Olympic Committee’s attempt to assure the world that Peng Shuai is safe was not only insufficient evidence of her well-being, it was, according to experts and activists, a “harmful,” “disturbing” and “active” amplification of Chinese propaganda, one that made the IOC “complicit” in China’s silencing of Peng’s sexual assault allegations . The IOC, in a Sunday statement, described a video call between Peng and IOC president Thomas Bach. It represented Peng’s first verified communication with the Western world since she...
