Xi Jinping wants to promote Chinese sports but a series of scandals is clouding their success.
Liang Wenbo at the Quarter Final of the Betway UK Snooker Championship, December 6, 2019. Credit: George Wood via Getty Images
China may be enjoying plenty of success in international sporting events like the Olympics these days, but it’s among the global leaders in a less desirable area too: sports-related corruption.
Recent scandals in soccer, snooker and even the relatively new world of eSports have demonstrated the downside of China’s huge and fast-growing sports industry. Chinese leader Xi Jinping, a self-proclaimed sports lover, has often expressed support for the sector whose overall value rose
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