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In North Korea (or in Iraq when sports were run by the sons of Saddam Husein) they would be dead by now. China is not that bad of a place. At the times when all the old Red Guard / Communist rhetoric is again unleashed in China it is still pretty shocking. Westerners focus on that and are...

Wow! Put this together with what I wrote earlier on this page about Xi and it all makes a consistent picture. I suspect LGL is scared right at this moment (not about going to jail or anything like that, but about other consequences that will still be unpleasant beyond, at this point, losing his...

I suspect Gou Zhongwen will be kicked out but not immediately because it cannot be made to look like popular pressure played any role. In the mean time, he will mess many things up. Players will pay a big price for protest, probably financially, and publicly so, by suspension for awhile.

Xi Jinping, the current leader of China, is quite different from the previous two Party Secretaries such as Hu Jintao. His economic policies are in many ways more market oriented and "liberal", partly from a time when he lived in the US. Unlike Gou Zhongwen, he is smart and thinks quickly on...

That is what makes this so interesting; it is a lot bigger than table tennis now. As yoass said, this can also cause positions to harden as there is the considerable risk of losing face. (Someone somewhere will lose face over this, but who?). Now, the question is, will the chance of Gou...

Rain, what is your best guess as to whether Gou Zhongwen keeps his job? I predict he will because it seems like the kinds of "reforms" he is imposing reflect philosophical preferences of the current faction of the CPC running the country. They will not be easily pressured to make a change. I...

I forgot why sne was suspended

In what I hope will not be a wasted effort to redirect the discussion BACK to the real issues, it seems to me that the following issues remain unresolved: 1. What punishments will be levied on FZD, Ma Long, and XX (and to a lesser extent to some of the other coaches like Ma Lin). Will it ever...

Dudes, please!!!!! Now I am begging you. Stop please.

Yes. Please. Let's try to get away from that part.

I for one find still find it quite interesting because the entire event -- top Chinese players in any sport forfeiting as an act of protest -- is without precedent. But at the moment we are not getting much in the way of new facts. The ZJK aspect is not really interesting except as TMZ style...

I think the simplest and most likely explanation is that the three players (ML, FZD, XX) genuinely feel that an injustice was done and that they were personally injured by LGL being fired, also they don't like being kept in the dark and not being consulted, and the fact that some are in a small...

Rain is on a roll! The only thing the ZJK Fangirls did to me was talk too much and block my view (which I might have forgiven if any had been cute, but alas). I had no idea that they were the embodiment of evil! :D

This confirms my distint impression at Dusseldorf that a lot of ZJK fangirls are not even remotely interested in TT or the other Chinese players (see also the crowd abandoning the stands after ZJK loss in Chengdu). I did not know they are actively hostile to the other Chinese players, which is...

My guess (all it is, a guess) is that KLH gambling triggered a lot of this. The government has been cracking down brutally on officials who gamble in Macau, Vegas, etc. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2083058/china-cracks-down-online-gambling-promoting-overseas If...

Possibly one of the few things on earth more annoying than ZJK fangirls. Hilariously, though, the State Plan to send out professional dancers across the country to "standardize" the dances the grannies do (reducing them down to a convenient seven) is another recent GSA decision and seems to be...

Maybe following the innovative "cross-border" theories of State Director Gou Zhongwen, they will send some figure skaters. (And instead of ZJK fangirls, they will send these).

This is twinkling wombat unicorn pink elephants nuts!!! Clearly China has put someone in charge of sports who knows nothing about sports -- and doesn't know he is a moron. Only thing crazier would be if sometime next week Trump names him director of the Center for Disease Control in the US...

We may not learn for awhile what fresh hell they have planned for these guys. All will be forgiven once one of them wins gold in Tokyo is my guess.

Amazing you know all these details. Next we will learn that you are actually Xu Xin.