Posted on 02/10/2022 12:21:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Who would have thought that, just mere days later, a beautiful gold medal–winning 18-year-old elite Olympian would exhibit the exact disdain and arrogance highlighted in the article?
Eileen Gu was born in California to a Chinese mother and an American father. While domiciled, educated, and trained in the United States, Gu visited China annually to visit her mother's family who resided there.
In 2019, Gu suddenly decided to represent China instead of the United States. When pressed, Gu loftily explained that it was not fame and riches that inspired her switched allegiance, but that she wanted to use sports as a conduit for unity. She argues that she has a unique opportunity to "help inspire millions of young people where my mum was born ... to help promote the sport I love."
After Gu won a gold medal in the Women's Freestyle Skiing Freeski Big Air competition, her life was placed under a microscope. In addition to being an extraordinarily gifted athlete, Gu models, is a superstar in China with her picture plastered all over the country, speaks fluent Mandarin, and has endorsement deals with Tiffany's and Louis Vuitton, among others. Brainy as well, with an almost perfect SAT score, she has been accepted to study at Stanford University.
Many Americans have spurned Gu, thinking her hypocritical, ungrateful for the U.S. training that helped her become a superstar and a high-paid stooge for the communists. Gu's comments in response to the criticism have not helped her cause.
Beside her hackneyed response of just "living my best life," she sounded absolutely nasty.
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Essentially, an American citizen must explicitly revoke citizenship, as Zhu Yi did, or else the citizenship remains in effect.
If Eileen Gu didn't renounce her U.S. citizenship and doesn't have a Chinese passport, since China does not recognize dual citizenship, how is she representing Team China?
We don’t legally recognize dual citizenship, either. A former co-worker of mine learned that the hard way.
Disgusting communist shill trash. Go represent Mao and flip the finger to America. First generation kids are even worse than immigrant parents because they tend to romanticize the old country.
“If Gu didn’t renounce her U.S. citizenship and doesn’t have a Chinese passport, since China does not recognize dual citizenship, how is she representing Team China?”
When it suits them, the ChiComs don’t worry about adhering to their own laws. They just want the wins and the propaganda victories.
That female black American/Japanese tennis player is like that. She has a nasty chip on her shoulder. A real piece of work.
This is a MAJOR problem, especially with anyone from communist China.
Not surprisingly, the US Supreme Court undid laws forbidding dual citizenship, especially the case of Afroyim v. Rusk, 1967.
this kid is interesting. She is definitely smart, pretty, as well as a good athlete. Who her American father is a complete mystery. There’s some suspicion on different people, or if the mother had herself artificially inseminated.
Its widely rumored that she (with her mother managing her) garnered at least $20 million in advertisements and promotions in China, likely much more than she would have got in the USA.
Its obvious that her beauty-pageant and cliche-heavy answers to questions are clearly scripted. The answers about her nationality are also clearly scripted as well.
Compare to Chloe Kim - who talks publicly about her emotional ups and downs while competing, and at a press conference yesterday, asked for snacks because she was hungry after her race. Totally unscripted, totally natural.
I agree with your statement. I have been to 2 naturalization ceremonies. There is a renouncing of the applicant’s former country before the oath of US citizenship takes place. Personally, I would love to see the US citizenship revoked for everyone that kept their previous citizenship then a deportation and a ban from reentering the country.
America's globalist, leftist, woke elites will go wherever the money and PR is best. This kid grew up in woke San Francisco, born to a Stanford educated, Silicon Valley, Wall Street employed mother from China. Do you think loyalty to the USA beyond whatever immediate advantage it offers, was ever a question?
So it’s all about the propaganda victory the Chinese are getting from her.
It helps that she is strikingly photogenic, and speaks fluent Mandarin.
I wonder if she will ever want to live and work in China.
Gu repeatedly evaded direct questions regarding her citizenship.
From linked Fox article: "Chinese state media has claimed that Gu became a Chinese national at the age of 15, according to Reuters. The government does not allow dual citizenship, meaning the California native would have had to give up her U.S. citizenship in order to do so."
"The Article 3 of China Nationality Law holds that the country will not admit the dual nationality of a Chinese citizen. Moreover, the Article 9 of that law declares that as soon as a Chinese takes a foreign citizenship, he will automatically lose his Chinese citizenship."
China olympic team members have to be PRC citizens.
Ask to see her passport...She draped herself with the Peoples Republic of China Flag while their anthem played on the podium, sounds like a PRC citizen to me.....Out of curiosity it might be revealing to know if her mother's citizenship remains Chinese.
The answer is that the two countries' embassies practice "Don't ask, don't tell."
So, unless she TOLD the Chinese authorities that she hadn't yet renounced her U.S. citizenship, they wouldn't have asked.
Regards,
Imagine a German-American competing for Nazi Germany in 1936.
What a circus.
Turn coat...assuming she was an anchor baby with Chinese mom and American dad.
“If Eileen Gu didn’t renounce her U.S. citizenship and doesn’t have a Chinese passport, since China does not recognize dual citizenship, how is she representing Team China?”
Essentially, because “team China” wanted to allow her to play for them. I have been curious if they also paid her to.
“Essentially, an American citizen must explicitly revoke citizenship”
This is a point of US law that no other country on the planet recognizes.
Likewise the USA has never required people fleeing the USSR, China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, or etc. to submit to the processes of their country of origin in order to renounce their previous citizenship.
Reliably corrupt countries are great places to live and work if you have money and influence...
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