2022 Olympic Winter Games Beijing

SanWenYu

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The Chinese Ice Hockey team (men's and women's) have 28 naturalized players in total, 22 of them have Chinese ancestors. Most of these naturalized players came from Canada and the US, one from Russia. I am not a hockey fan so I cannot tell how good they are from this brief Chinese introduction of them:

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In4ser

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I hope China doesn't rely upon foreign naturalized players too much. China uses a lot of them in soccer but they still get destroyed by other Asian country's soccer teams. IMO they should focus more on getting coaches and building a sport's culture instead of copying Arabs i.e. trying to buy foreign talent instead of developing themselves. Not that I particularly care about sports, but China should adopt a philosophy analogous to its own industrial and technological development and instead of relying upon foreigners focus upon self-improvement instead.
 

Overbom

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I hope China doesn't rely upon foreign naturalized players too much. China uses a lot of them in soccer but they still get destroyed by other Asian country's soccer teams. IMO they should focus more on getting coaches and building sports culture instead of copying Arabs trying to buy foreign talent instead of developing themselves. Not that I particularly care about sports, but China should adopt a philosophy analogous to its own industrial and technological development and instead of relying upon foreigners focus upon self-improvement instead.
That soccer team is a disgrace. They have lost to everyone
 

weig2000

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The Chinese Ice Hockey team (men's and women's) have 28 naturalized players in total, 22 of them have Chinese ancestors. Most of these naturalized players came from Canada and the US, one from Russia. I am not a hockey fan so I cannot tell how good they are from this brief Chinese introduction of them:

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Wow. I'm stunned.
 

B.I.B.

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Lawn bowls is for wusses. It's like hockey to ice hockey, but even worse.
They tell me that ice hockey players develop their reflexes on that game found in video palours. It's played on pool sized shinny suface table where each player defends their goal mouth from a disc shot at them with amazing speed.
 

OppositeDay

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As I said above, if someone was born in a foreign country and hence automatically acquired foreign citizenship like in the US, she/he has a chance when becoming an adult (21?) to select to become a Chinese citizen on her/his own will. This is assuming, of course, at least one parent was a Chinese citizen.

Now, back to the core issue discussed here: whether she can be a dual citizen at this point. The answer is an absolute No. In both theory (law) and practice. Again I'm talking about legally which we should assume that's the case for a celebrity like her now. Just in case that you or someone still thinks there is a distinctive possibility or grey area that China in this case would pretend she would have renounced her US citizenship (benign negligence) and doesn't care, like the US practice effectively. The answer is still No. China strictly enforces this law. Heck, they even strictly enforce some policy on permanent resident or green card holders (like you have to give up your Hukou or something like that).

To be sure, there are Chinese citizens that effective violate the citizenship law by holding foreign passports without acknowledging it publicly or to the government. This is illegal and there have been crackdowns. In Eilleen Gu's case, I doubt that's the case. It's such a high-profile case and they will make sure she would provide the proof that she has renounced American citizenship first.

There is a similar case before about a guy from UK, he is called 华天. He participated in Equestrian representing China in 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Here is the text of China's Citizenship Law
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It all depends on whether Gu's mother was an U.S. resident at the time of Gu's birth. If she wasn't then Gu automatically became a Chinese citizen at birth. Since China does not recognize dual citizenship she has never been an American citizen under Chinese law.

Losing hukou and losing citizenship are completely different. Chinese citizens who settled aboard for a prolonged period of time could lose their hukou but not their Chinese citizenship. The only way a person can involuntarily loses their Chinese citizenship is when they obtain foreign citizenship through naturalization.
 

NiuBiDaRen

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Always the Chinese female teams are better than the male teams.

Chinese female basketball, volleyball, soccer, curling are all top in the world but the men's teams all suck.

Why?

Even when China had Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and another two NBA players they still severely underperformed. They did worse than teams with fewer or no NBA players.
 

B.I.B.

Captain
Always the Chinese female teams are better than the male teams.

Chinese female basketball, volleyball, soccer, curling are all top in the world but the men's teams all suck.

Why?

Even when China had Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and another two NBA players they still severely underperformed. They did worse than teams with fewer or no NBA players.
Perhaps they do not "gel" as a team. They all want to be the star player as that where they see the rewards are.
 
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