The Australian Open tennis tournament has been overshadowed by protests for a second time this year after Tennis Australia ejected two spectators for wearing T-shirts in support of Chinese player Peng Shuai. Video footage of security officials and police ejecting the two protesters, who had a banner and T-shirts emblazoned with the Chinese player’s face and the phrase: “Where is Peng Shuai?”, was circulated online over the weekend. Peng came under pressure last year after she accused a senior Chinese government official of sexual assault. Tennis Australia said spectators were not allowed to display political or commercial statements during the tournament.
Interestingly, journalists can ask questions about the Peng Shuai situation to players, but fans, seemingly, aren’t allowed to…. #AusOpen pic.twitter.com/SCqNlH2bOx
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshMedia) January 23, 2022
It has nothing to do with the $25m of Chinese sponsorship.
Scott Morrison’s profile on China’s largest social media website has been hacked and re-branded to push the Communist nation’s propaganda in what has been dubbed a ‘blatant’ act of censorship.
The Australian prime minister has recently seen his WeChat account turned into a pro-Beijing mouthpiece under the name ‘Australian Chinese new life’, in what intelligence chiefs are calling ‘foreign interference’.
Mr Morrison’s 76,000 followers on the ‘super app’ were sent a notification indicating they should opt out immediately or they’d be automatically signed up to the bizarre new account.
The PM clearly visited the tournament.
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can someone dump some shots of the hacked ScoMo account ? LOL.
how low can the CCP go ?
The bigger question is why da faq has he got a WeChat account.
Votes, votes and votes.
Seems like a waste of resources on our great northern neighbors part.
Because of all of our so called leaders employ a whole army to connect with voters on social media. These people curate the comments too. I left some criticism on a local members FB page and it wasn’t long before it was deleted. Obviously employing people to remove my criticism was of much higher value to society than removing the giant pothole on the main road.
Racism.
WeChat is a platform for Chinese-Han supremacy, and they regard anyone absent from WeChat as sub-human.
Morrison is chasing the Chinese supremacist vote.
it’s Gladys Liu’s (remember her) preferred platform for communicating back to her controllers
Not just that, but she (and her ally Michael “Shady” Sukkar) spread a LOT of misinformation on the platform. The AEC is a toothless tiger in WeChat.
A substantial number of recent voters (~ last two decades) of Chinese descent are evangelical bots.
WeChat needs to be blocked as a tool of the enemy!
That’s why we need you reusa…..
When it comes to female immigrants of Chinese heritage under that age of 30, no one has used their tool more than you to bring about a happy transaction.
It’s about listening to experts.
Serves them right, should have asked “So, where the bloody hell are you, Peng?”
Fortunately, Scummo is tough on China. And on Djokovic, too.
and on “illegal migrants”
where is peng shuai?
room 101
In a tiger chair, or maybe, as she is famous, being forced to sit in a 50cm square for hours on end or whatever the CCP’s latest torture is.
Yep. With the thousands of others sent to a ‘residial surveillance at a designated location’ each year:
https://safeguarddefenders.com/sites/default/files/pdf/Locked%20Up%20%28High%20Res%20version%29.pdf
180 bullseye!🎯
You would think this, plus the return to anal swaps, need for burner phones etc, countries should be boycotting the CCP games.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/doubt-we-will-see-fair-play-german-fears-covid-19-tests-could-be-manipulated-at-winter-games-20220124-p59qol.html
“anal swaps”
filthy buggers, what’ll they think of next
LOL, the next dodgy fin. instrument. ^swabs
No one is going to boycott the games as they don’t want their exports at risk.
Given the Tokyo Olympics had low ratings, viewers will not be tuning in to this either.
If only they had these sort of conditions on Aussie sporting & cultural tickets back in the day, Sud Afrika would never have have crumbled and apartheid would still reign supreme! Well done Tennis Australia, don’t let the ladies get any ideas, keep dem biaches in their place!
So Australia can’t get $25m in local sponsorship, looks like the writing has to be on the wall for holding the event here. After last year when we held the round ball circus when the locals didn’t want it, I will be glad to see the back of it.
Remember the Oz Open in the late 70s, early 80s? Big names couldn’t be arsed coming for it. It will stay, but sometimes it has to pull its head out of its arse and get back to tennis.
Looking at you, Craig Tiley.
The entry rules state no political slogans or demonstrations at the tennis.
Just like the entry rules of many places including the tennis state double vaccinated only.
There are better places to protest anyway than a couple of people at the tennis… you need thousands at least to get any traction or attention. Too many people are ambivalent. I guess its a cultural thing.
On the contrary, Tennis Australia kicking out a couple of anti-CCP spectators has gotten great coverage, much more than those spectators would have received had they been left to sit in their chairs and watch the tennis.
Would be interesting to see what a Court thinks of the notion that a call to free a tennis player is a political slogan.
I wonder if people can wear an aboriginal flag on their T-shirt on Australia Day?
This is great, hahahaha.
Indeed ! Hahahaha
For me a little dark haired bloke in white shirt and black pants standing in the aisles during play holding a pair of shopping bags would be better in match protest than a slogan t shirt
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU
People are too stupid to realise. I’ve got a Tank Man tshirt that I love yet whenever I wear it someone invariably asks me why the tanks.
I don’t mind explaining what happened…no, love it to be honest…but so many have no idea what happened 30 years ago.
Good on you MB. I’ve ordered my Beijing 2022 T-shirt:
“Beijing 2022. Fake snow. Real genocide”
I had a tee shirt that many people said was in bad taste and offensive.
“What are you talking about” I would say “it’s a Salvador Dalí print I picked up at the artisan Paddington markets.
Dontcha know art when you see it”
I really miss the effect that tee shirt had on people.
https://images.app.goo.gl/h5ap893Htx6Yp8jV6
Well there you go. I had heard of rat chow, but I took it to mean something else.
Is that a youthful Anthony Bourdain?….
Tennis Australia sets the rules for Victoria Police !!! The Police providing great publicity for Peng Shuai.
Wasn’t it MB darling Drew Pavlou and his mate that did this?
If so, good on them.
They are now going to hand out 1000 free T shirts to spectators as they go into the stadium
….what are the jackboots of Victoria Police and TA going to do ?
Go lads …stick it right up ‘em …….they don’t like it up ‘em ….
Make up some reason to arrest them and stop them handing out shirts ?
Being VicPol they’ll probably be lucky to get out without being shot.
Yes. Drew said it got them a lot of donations so they’re going to print a heap of shirts up and hand them out for free to people going to the final.
Can’t kick them all out he says.
That’s a hold my beer statement.
There was a time where we would have thought “they can’t open fire on us”… only for September 2021 to roll along.
Or the Tiananmen students in 1989.
What has social equality and freedom for the masses (ala CCP) got to do with Tennis anyway?
Wheres the strawberries n cream?