2022 Olympic Winter Games Beijing

siegecrossbow

siegecrossbow

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siegecrossbow said:
How is this a defection? Did she say she fled the U.S. due to persecution or something? I don't think so. If this qualifies as a defection then half the people on this forum are PRC defectors.
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What a friggin traitor. Look at how she badmouths the U.S. establishment.

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"I am proud of my heritage and equally proud of my American upbringing," Gu said in a statement after the decision.


"Through skiing, I hope to unite people, promote common understanding, create communication and forge friendships between nations."
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weig2000

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supersnoop said:
I feel really bad for Eileen Gu.
She is being branded simultaneously as a ungrateful traitor, opportunist, and ignoramus.

This garbage article really ticked me off. I thought it would be interesting, but instead it was state department tripe.
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The criticism of Ms. Gu is just showing all the worst traits that western media claims to be striving to eliminate, sexism, racism, intolerance, ignorance. Why is she attracting so much extra attention? Simply because she is a smart, attractive, Chinese female at the top of her game. What a joke.

They compare her to Peng Shuhai, saying the government can disappear her at any moment if they are not happy with her. Ignoring the fact that Peng Shuhai is not disappeared and has made many public appearances. They also interview some talking head from "Freedom House" saying how she can't say anything about Uyghurs, Hong Kong, or Human rights etc. You know, why should she comment? If she thinks terrible abuses are happening, why would she represent China? If she doesn't think they are, then why would she want to attract even more negative western press? Any comment is a no-win for her, that is common sense.

Nina Schultz/Zheng and her Brother Ty, both are Canadians who are representing China. With all due respect to them as high level competitors, neither are attracting the kind of negative press that Gu does simply because they weren't/aren't gold medal contenders.

Freddie Freeman (Atlanta Braves 1B) an American who chose to represent Canada at World Baseball Classic despite never living a day in Canada. Why? He said being Canadian (never taking American citizenship) was very important to his mother who had passed away, so this it was a tribute to her. It was a touching gesture that no one questioned.
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Some of the quotes from the article:

Calls for an outright boycott of the Games heightened after the Women's Tennis Association, which is based in Florida, suspended all tournaments in China after
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, a three-time Olympian,
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She had accused a high-ranking former government official of sexual abuse on social media, which Chinese censors immediately scrubbed from the internet.
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For the millionth times, Peng Shuai did not in her original Weibo post and continues to say that she was accusing anyone of sexual abuse. They had an affair between two consenting adults. She was not happy that he dumped her. That's all.

For all these reasons, athletes have found themselves in a difficult situation in the lead-up to the Games. Most U.S. athletes have spent the past several months avoiding directly answering questions regarding China's human rights abuses for fear of losing sponsors or being blocked from entering the country. But a misstep by a U.S. athlete in Beijing comes with a level of protection by the U.S. consulate, which would work to get them out of the country if they were detained. As a Chinese citizen, Gu could be pulled from competition, forced to surrender her passport or be prevented from leaving the country.
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There are many such ludicrous accusation and speculation in the article.

In the end, I suppose it's difficult for many Americans to accept the fact that such a talented, born-in-the-US, only half-Chinese girl to switch her nationality from American to Chinese. This is not supposed to happen, really only talented foreign nationals drop their own nationality of birth and become US citizen, not the other way around.

The fact that this is happening now - and this is not the only high-profile case - and the American media make a big deal out of it just tells you how
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Bellum_Romanum

Bellum_Romanum

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supersnoop said:
Woke liberals' tolerance only goes as far as people who share all their same views.

"She's an ignorant teenager" and then... "she scored really high on her SAT..."
Is she stupid or is she smart?
"she has no freedom in China...", "she made the choice to represent China..."
She has choices, but she doesn't have choices...
They really did project all the western fascist-style criticisms onto her.
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Yet, some of these same crowd thinks that Kyrie Irving is a genius or something for spewing gibberish and besides what can we expect from some folks who would rather take medical advice from a pillow seller; from a UFC announcer/martial artist/comedian and a slew of social media influencers a.k.a. experts. American intelligence is equals to being a know-it-all dunce.
 
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