Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China
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Re: Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China
#2This takes some serious balls and I tip my hat to the organization! Let's see what China does to force them to reconsider
Re: Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China
#3This takes some serious balls and I tip my hat to the organization! Let's see what China does to force them to reconsider
Maybe recognized that women are not objects to be used and abused by people with money and authority.
This is sadly something you find everywhere in this world, but at least, in some countries, women can hope to get the justice to investigate fairly.
Being a woman in this world is not easy.
Re: Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China
#4Kudos to them.
Re: Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China
#5They are going to lose 1/3 of revenue. Now NBA and Xohn Xhina on the other hand.
Re: Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China
#6As a Chinese-American residing in the US, I really have to smile when white people think they can "stick it" to China. Westerners, in particular white people, are threatened by Asian faces gaining power in the Far East, and so they demonize my country and countrymen and make up ridiculous stories about how much of a scary Orwellian hellhole China is. And of course they indulge in their white savior narrative and try to portray themselves as sooo much better than China. They are not so noble. If Westerners think they can keep goading my country one day they just might regret it. I used to think that China should continue being pacifist (not waging war) but I think it is now necessary given the rising hostility from the USA and other white/white-adjacent nations that are threatened by Chinese/Asian dominance. Given the rising tensions I wonder if the party leadership should just say "f it" and do a rapid reunification Taiwan as soon as possible and risk the economic damage. They have the nukes, afterall.
Re: Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China
#7They are going to lose 1/3 of revenue. Now NBA and Xohn Xhina on the other hand.
It's revenue already lost. No tournament was happening since October 2020 already. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2020/07/23/wta-to-c...
Re: Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China
#8As a Chinese-American residing in the US, I really have to smile when white people think they can "stick it" to China. Westerners, in particular white people, are threatened by Asian faces gaining power in the Far East, and so they demonize my country and countrymen and make up ridiculous stories about how much of a scary Orwellian hellhole China is. And of course they indulge in their white savior narrative and try…
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Re: Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China
#9Both Billie Jean King, the founder of WTA, and Novak Djokovic support WTA’s announcement [1].
“I applaud Steve Simon and the WTA leadership for taking a strong stand on defending human rights in China and around the world,” said Billie Jean King. “The WTA is on the right side of history in supporting our players. This is another reason why women’s tennis is the leader in women’s sports.”
Novak Djokovic, World No 1 and cofounder of the Professional Tennis Players Association, said he fully supported the WTA’s stance, and everyone including the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) and the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) was “asking for clarity on what is going on”.
“We don’t have enough information and I think it’s a very bold, very courageous stance from WTA,” he told reporters.
Joe Pompliano thinks the WTA will lose 1/3 of their revenue [2].
[2]: https://twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/1466142522628059144
Re: Steve Simon announces WTA’s decision to suspend tournaments in China
#10As a Chinese-American residing in the US, I really have to smile when white people think they can "stick it" to China. Westerners, in particular white people, are threatened by Asian faces gaining power in the Far East, and so they demonize my country and countrymen and make up ridiculous stories about how much of a scary Orwellian hellhole China is. And of course they indulge in their white savior narrative and try…
I’m not white and I don’t believe it’s right that a woman should be politically silenced for speaking out about sexual abuse she encountered.
Perhaps not everything is about ‘sticking it’ to your homeland.