Sigh yeah she’s very pretty and talented. I thought it was interesting too…choosing to rep China. I mean she is half-Chinese, but yes it has political implications. What are her thoughts on the way her fellow Chinese are treated? Why did her mom immigrate to the US in the first place? Etc...
Maybe she is promoting freedom in her own way by inspiring aspiring Chinese female athletes on what can and should be possible for all of them too? I dunno.
Only in the west do you see that, you don't such things in nations like Japan, least of all China.