YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [출발 새아침]
□ Broadcast Date: November 23, 2021 (Tuesday)
□ Host: Broadcaster Kim Je-dong
□ Performer: Moon Hee-jung, international current affairs critic
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1. For today’s first news, I think we should start by talking about Feng Shun, a Chinese tennis player who has been rumored to be missing. What is the end of the case?
– China’s leading tennis star, Feng Shunyi, posted on Weibo on the 2nd, revealing that former Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Gaori, one of China’s top leaders, sexually assaulted her and forced her to have an inappropriate relationship for years afterward.
– However, for some reason, this post was deleted after about 20 minutes, and since then, Peng’s whereabouts have become obscure, raising concerns that there may have been a personal problem.
– World-class tennis players such as Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams, the World Women’s Tennis Association, the United Nations, and even the US and French governments came forward and demanded the Chinese government to guarantee Feng’s safety.
– The Feng Shui incident eventually led to a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which is scheduled to be held in February next year.
– Finally, on the 20th, IOC member Dick Pound suggested that the IOC could take a hard line on the Beijing Olympics if there is no proper action from the Chinese government.
1-1. By the way, did you take action by uploading photos or videos related to Shun Feng in the Chinese state media?
– Let the IOC step forward and pressurize it. As you said, the Chinese state media started to tell stories about Peng Shun.
– On the 18th, China’s state-run English news channel CGTN revealed that Feng had sent an e-mail to Steve Simon, the president of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), stating, “The allegations of sexual assault are not true and I am resting well at home.” on the 20th, a reporter posted three photos on social media saying,
– Hu Shi-jin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, who always represents the Chinese government’s position, on the 20th showed a video of Shun Feng having a meal with his coach and friends at a restaurant, and on the 21st, a video of her attending a Chinese youth tennis tournament. upload
– However, the timing of the photo or video shooting is not clear, and suspicions arose that the state-run media, not Peng, is taking the lead.
– In addition, there is no news about Peng Shun in China, and there is no mention of the #MeToo or disappearance rumors on Weibo.
1-2. Did you hear that I had a video call with Thomas Bach, chairman of the IOC?
– On the 21st, it was revealed that IOC President Thomas Bach had a 30-minute video call with Feng Shun.
In the phone call, Shen Feng is known to have said that she is currently doing well in her Beijing home and that she wants her privacy to be respected, that she now wants to spend time with friends and family, and that she will continue playing tennis, the sport she loves so much.
– In this event, IOC Athletes Commission Chairman Emma Terho and Chinese IOC member Li Lingwei were present.
– However, Western countries, including the United States, are still raising doubts about the safety of Feng Shun-Yi, whether he is under coercive control by the Chinese government.
– Also, as it is unclear whether an investigation into the sexual violence that Peng Shunyi suffered can be thoroughly conducted, there are still concerns about this aspect.
1-3. The fact that this concern of the international community is not without basis is that there have been cases in China where people who disobeyed the government disappeared from public view, right?
– Most recently, Alibaba founder Ma Win and actor Fan Bingbing disappeared from public view for several months.
– In 2018, Meng Hongwei, the first Chinese head of the International Criminal Police Agency (Interpol), went on a business trip to China and lost contact with his wife, and his wife reported the disappearance.
– At the end of 2015, five Hong Kong publishers, including Swedish national Gui Min-hai, went missing after selling books in Hong Kong that had been banned in China.
– It turns out that all of them were detained and questioned by the Chinese government.
– In China, when rumors of disappearance of celebrities occur because the practice of arresting and investigating without warrant review or detention period restrictions (meaning ‘prescribed time, specified place’) officially disappeared in 2018, but is still prevalent. The international community’s attention is focused on
2. At this time, I feel once again that China is not a democratized country. Controversy over the US verdict of not guilty of a teenage man who shot and killed two people at anti-racism protesters?
– In the United States, after the death of George Floyd, a black man in late May of last year, as a result of excessive repression by white police, large-scale protests against racism have been held in the United States, saying, ‘Black lives are scarce’.
– Even under such circumstances, at the end of August last year, there was another incident in which Jacob Blake, a black man, was paralyzed in the lower body by a police shooting.
Angry citizens ran out into the streets again, at this time in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a white teen Kyle Rittenhouse, along with white vigilantes, with guns to stop the protesters.
– And in his firing, two protesters were killed and one injured.
On the 19th, a jury in Kenosha County Court acquitted Rittenhouse on five counts, including two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
2-1. I don’t readily understand how they could have been acquitted in a case where there were two deaths?
– Rittenhouse claimed that it was self-defense to protect himself from a situation where he felt threatened by the protesters who continued to take their guns immediately after his arrest.
The jury, mostly white, upheld Rittenhouse’s argument after 26 hours of discussion.
– The victims’ families were outraged, saying that it was a “failure of the judicial system,” and there is growing criticism of the system in which decisions are made to be lenient towards white people, arguing that the same result would have been obtained even if they were black.
– Protests against the acquittal are now taking place across the United States, and President Joe Biden has said the jury’s verdict should be acknowledged, even though “Kenosha’s verdict has caused anger and concern in many Americans, including myself.” after
– On the other hand, the voices of white supremacists and proponents of gun ownership who exalt Rittenhouse as a hero are also increasing.
2-2. In a way, it can be seen that the result was more encouraging rather than sealing the enduring conflict in the United States.
– In fact, the trial also sparked debates over gun control, racism, and the scope of self-defense in the United States.
– The Washington Post analyzed that “the polarization of America is widening” and “The Rittenhouse is like a human canvas on which the political divisions of the United States are mapped.”
– Democrats, including President Biden, have introduced gun control legislation whenever there is a gun incident, but it has not been passed in Congress at all, and has met with strong opposition from gun proponents.
The acquittal of Rittenhouse is likely to create a vicious cycle that once again encourages Americans to use guns.
– There are many concerns that the paradoxical proponent of guns will be another example of gaining strength in order to protect myself from those who have guns.
CNN warns that crimes by angry white men may become more frequent in the future.
3. The following is the news that the lockdown has been entered in Europe, where the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is skyrocketing, but there are quite a lot of voices against it?
– In the Netherlands, the first in Europe to reopen lockdowns, since Friday night, hundreds of protesters against the government’s broadcasting policy have staged radical protests, including throwing stones and setting fires at police and firefighters. 7 injured and 51 arrested by the police / Protest continues for three days
– In Austria, where vaccination was mandatory from February 1 of next year along with the total re-lockdown on the 19th, more than 35,000 people marched on the streets without wearing masks, chanting ‘anti-vaccine’ and ‘anti-government’ slogans.
– More than 35,000 people participated in anti-protests in Belgium, which has begun to tighten regulations again, such as expanding the application of vaccine certificates and making telecommuting mandatory.
Protests against the introduction of vaccine passes were also held over the weekend in Italy and France, where protests against mandatory vaccines have continued for months.
Thousands of protesters in Switzerland, British Northern Ireland and Croatia also protested against the government’s re-introduction of quarantine measures.
YTN Park Jun-beom (pyh@ytnradio.kr)
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