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Eventine said:

She is very much viewed as an idol in China, and often for the wrong reasons. Being critical of this fact is healthy. Her success is not particularly reflective of anything that can be attributed to being Chinese, outside of maybe the Chinese government investing in young foreign athletes to bolster sports power.


Fair enough, but the reason I responded is also because some people were taking the identity aspect a bit too far. Eileen frequently credits her American upbringing for her success, and we know she was primarily trained in the US, so the perspective that she's an American athlete objectively makes more sense than trying to place her as "Chinese."

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AssassinsMace said:

Alex Karp gets excited at people getting killed. That’s why I hope that China’s demonstration of a hypersonic glide vehicle that released a payload has been furthered developed and advanced since this was first revealed. That’s going be an important weapon for China to be able to drop precision guided conventional munitions anywhere in the world. With Trump thinking he can bomb countries without impunity, the only thing that’s going to make Americans think twice is being able to strike the homeland. Even more since Americans have never experienced their homeland being hit in war and with technology today targeting someone like Alex Karp is possible. You hit his house, Palantir, and then you don’t think there are people in the US willing to doxx him in real time where he’ll be driving in a car and in his rear view mirror he sees a bomb explode right behind him? It can miss and it’ll still payoff psychologically across the MAGA world. Look at Tim Pool who’s so paranoid right now that he thinks he’s the next Charlie Kirk to be assassinated. And look at all these anti-China US military tech bros that have plenty of things that can be taken away from them. If China can do that, no one including their MAGA friends will want to be anywhere near them.

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Thecore said:

A. She puts gold medals on the all-time olympic medal listing in the China column, so who cares at the end of the day.
B. She speaks better mandarin (bigger vocabulary) than I do, a full blooded Chinese diaspora. She can probably read Chinese better than me too. That didn't happen without putting in the work. There are a lot of diaspora with shit Chinese like myself who DIDN'T put in the work. Therefore I have no problem letting her claim her metaphorical Chinese stripes.

Forgot to mention, never heard a peep from her espousing CIA/MI6 concocted anti-China slanderous atrocity propaganda or anything of the sort.

You think Indians would give a shit if a blonde haired blue eyed sports prodigy named Heinrich decided to represent them and won them a nice stack of golds so they can finally stop being a global embarrassment in the olympics? There would be millions of them dancing and cheering in the streets and throwing colored chalk powder all over each other for days on end or whatever it is the hell they do.

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delfer said:

The one time that the enemy got the drop on them back on 9/11, the US literally almost lost its collective mind from fear and paranoia. I can only imagine the reaction to Chinese missile strikes on the CONUS.

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Randomuser said:

Trying to gatekeep global sports based on ethnicity just isn't gonna do it today. Look how many black people there in European sports now. Are they all gonna deny Mbappe, Teddy Rinner or Anthony Joshua coz they look black? The racist crowd does but whats the point since they are outnumbered heavily by those who only care about the achievement.

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StraightEdge said:

I came across a few small Chinese dramas in youtube. I should have never watched any of those. I can't think how this improves China's image. I would say they reinforce the 'cheap' image many westerners still have about China. Are the regulators not worried about this?

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uguduwa said:

For one thing, I hope China drops Kawaii aesthetics. It‘s so weird seeing grown ass women acting like toddlers. HK, Korean cinema were at their peaks when Kawaii bs was not around and grown women acted like grown women. Now, outside of Southeast Asia (who are not relevant), popularity of East Asian cinema has been decimated. Sad.

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