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Teenage superstar Eileen Gu stuns America with defection to China

Did she really change citizenships though? Or did she just get a pass?
She changed her citizenship when she was 15, but I know another girl in Beijing, she was born in New York, she told me she can choose her citizenship when she reaches 18 years old, but she already made up her mind to pick China.
 
A lot of Chinese female businesswomen are like this. Just opportunistic and manipulative people. Eileen’s mother is completely like this.
Currently there are many bitches in China

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Currently there are many bitches in China

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People like her mom have no loyalty, no true love for anyone but themselves. She chose a white sperm donor because she thinks a half white kid would have more status and she would be able to parade them around back in China and open doors.

She made Eileen turn her back on America, the country that raised her and made her a star athlete, because she would be a superstar in China and become rich.

Well, they are rich and famous now. So I guess she wasn’t wrong was she? I guess people with principles don’t get far in life.

Some reports mentioned it, besides, if she didn't, she can't represent China, it's the law she can't bypass.
Yeah but never any real confirmation just assumption.

Let me clue you in, she probably never gave up her US passport.
 

Eileen Gu renounced her US citizenship to compete for China in the Olympics. As an Asian-American, I have some thoughts​

For people like me — and, clearly, for people like Eileen Gu — identity is complicated

Amber Raiken
New York
12 hours ago

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(Getty Images)

When I was eight years old, sitting in the living room and watching the Olympic Games with my mom, I asked her: “Who do I root for? China or the USA?” In response, she simply said, “Anyone you want.”

That memory came back to me when I saw the furore surrounding Olympian Eileen Gu this week. Gu, 18, is a Chinese-American freestyle skier, who won her first World Cup in 2019, representing the US. According to her official profile, the athlete, who was born and raised in California by an American father and Chinese mother, renounced her United States citizenship for Chinese citizenship so she could represent China at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games.

Like Gu, I am also an Asian-American, as I was born in China. However, neither of my parents are Chinese. I was adopted at eight months and raised by a Guatemalan mother and an American father in New York City. That’s what caused me to ask them who I was supposed to support when I first saw those Olympic athletes on my family’s television screen. For people like me — and, clearly, for people like Eileen Gu — identity is complicated.


“This was an incredibly tough decision for me to make,” Gu wrote in a post on Instagram after renouncing her American citizenship. “I am proud of my heritage, and equally proud of my American upbringings. The opportunity to help inspire millions of young people where my mom was born, during the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help to promote the sport I love.”

Since then, Gu has represented China in multiple World Cups, where she’s taken home medals for major events, including the big air, slopestyle, and half pipe.

The blowback Gu received for her decision was fierce. She has been called a “traitor” on social media, and told that the United States’ pledge of allegiance clearly “meant nothing” to her. Former Winter X Games gold medalist from Team USA, Jen Hudak, also chimed in with her thoughts on Gu’s identity. “It is not my place to judge, but Eileen is from California, not from China, and her decision [to ski for China] seems opportunistic,” Hudak told The New York Post.

“She became the athlete she is because she grew up in the United States, where she had access to premier training grounds and coaching that, as a female, she might not have had in China,” Hudak added. “I think she would be a different skier if she grew up in China.”

This past December, the Biden administration announced a boycott of the Beijing Games due to China’s documented human rights abuses, some of which include detaining over a million Uighur Muslims.

Sarah Cook, research director for China at Freedom House (a nonprofit that advocates for human rights), told ESPN that as a Chinese citizen, Gu is not protected by the US consulate when in Beijing. “Competing as a Chinese national removes any potential diplomatic protections others might have as a foreigner in China,” she said. “If she gets into any kind of trouble, she doesn’t have that protection.”

Few are able to separate Gu’s personal identity from global geopolitics, and even fewer are willing to concede that it’s a nuanced discussion.

Growing up, I was often referred to as a “white girl” by my peers because I wasn’t brought up by Asian parents. While there is some truth to the implication, it is of course far from true that I am read as white by the outside world.

I feel both a connection and disconnection to my Chinese heritage, and I probably always will. I certainly feel more American than Chinese. But I wouldn’t hesitate to identify myself as Chinese-American, rather than simply American. I don’t believe that calling myself a Chinese-American is something that I have “the right” to do; it is something that I want to do. Identity is partly about the cards you are dealt in life, and partly about choice.

Gu has made a choice that has angered a lot of people, but it was her choice to make, informed by her own background. As an athlete, it is not her responsibility to solve global diplomatic disputes. If she chooses to weigh in on issues like China’s record on human rights abuses, then good for her. Equally, we must all force ourselves to accept that she may never — and that it was never her job to do so.


Yeah but never any real confirmation just assumption.

Let me clue you in, she probably never gave up her US passport.
"Recently one of Gu's main sponsors, Red Bull, included on its website a passage that read: “At the age of 15, US-born Gu decided to give up her American passport and naturalize as a Chinese citizen in order to compete for China in Beijing—because Chinese law doesn't recognize dual nationality.”

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If not, how can she represent China? it's not allowed by the Chinese law. I don't think she can be above Chinese laws.
 

Eileen Gu renounced her US citizenship to compete for China in the Olympics. As an Asian-American, I have some thoughts​

For people like me — and, clearly, for people like Eileen Gu — identity is complicated

Amber Raiken
New York
12 hours ago

GettyImages-1363702342.jpg

(Getty Images)

When I was eight years old, sitting in the living room and watching the Olympic Games with my mom, I asked her: “Who do I root for? China or the USA?” In response, she simply said, “Anyone you want.”

That memory came back to me when I saw the furore surrounding Olympian Eileen Gu this week. Gu, 18, is a Chinese-American freestyle skier, who won her first World Cup in 2019, representing the US. According to her official profile, the athlete, who was born and raised in California by an American father and Chinese mother, renounced her United States citizenship for Chinese citizenship so she could represent China at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games.

Like Gu, I am also an Asian-American, as I was born in China. However, neither of my parents are Chinese. I was adopted at eight months and raised by a Guatemalan mother and an American father in New York City. That’s what caused me to ask them who I was supposed to support when I first saw those Olympic athletes on my family’s television screen. For people like me — and, clearly, for people like Eileen Gu — identity is complicated.


“This was an incredibly tough decision for me to make,” Gu wrote in a post on Instagram after renouncing her American citizenship. “I am proud of my heritage, and equally proud of my American upbringings. The opportunity to help inspire millions of young people where my mom was born, during the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help to promote the sport I love.”

Since then, Gu has represented China in multiple World Cups, where she’s taken home medals for major events, including the big air, slopestyle, and half pipe.

The blowback Gu received for her decision was fierce. She has been called a “traitor” on social media, and told that the United States’ pledge of allegiance clearly “meant nothing” to her. Former Winter X Games gold medalist from Team USA, Jen Hudak, also chimed in with her thoughts on Gu’s identity. “It is not my place to judge, but Eileen is from California, not from China, and her decision [to ski for China] seems opportunistic,” Hudak told The New York Post.

“She became the athlete she is because she grew up in the United States, where she had access to premier training grounds and coaching that, as a female, she might not have had in China,” Hudak added. “I think she would be a different skier if she grew up in China.”

This past December, the Biden administration announced a boycott of the Beijing Games due to China’s documented human rights abuses, some of which include detaining over a million Uighur Muslims.

Sarah Cook, research director for China at Freedom House (a nonprofit that advocates for human rights), told ESPN that as a Chinese citizen, Gu is not protected by the US consulate when in Beijing. “Competing as a Chinese national removes any potential diplomatic protections others might have as a foreigner in China,” she said. “If she gets into any kind of trouble, she doesn’t have that protection.”

Few are able to separate Gu’s personal identity from global geopolitics, and even fewer are willing to concede that it’s a nuanced discussion.

Growing up, I was often referred to as a “white girl” by my peers because I wasn’t brought up by Asian parents. While there is some truth to the implication, it is of course far from true that I am read as white by the outside world.

I feel both a connection and disconnection to my Chinese heritage, and I probably always will. I certainly feel more American than Chinese. But I wouldn’t hesitate to identify myself as Chinese-American, rather than simply American. I don’t believe that calling myself a Chinese-American is something that I have “the right” to do; it is something that I want to do. Identity is partly about the cards you are dealt in life, and partly about choice.

Gu has made a choice that has angered a lot of people, but it was her choice to make, informed by her own background. As an athlete, it is not her responsibility to solve global diplomatic disputes. If she chooses to weigh in on issues like China’s record on human rights abuses, then good for her. Equally, we must all force ourselves to accept that she may never — and that it was never her job to do so.

Again just assumptions no actual proof.

Does she carry a Chinese passport? Was her Us citizenship formally rescinded?

You know she still lives in San Francisco and will attend Stanford right? Honestly she’s a bit clueless to be doing this considering the tension.
 
Again just assumptions no actual proof.

Does she carry a Chinese passport? Was her Us citizenship formally rescinded?

You know she still lives in San Francisco and will attend Stanford right? Honestly she’s a bit clueless to be doing this considering the tension.
Tell me how can she compete for China if she is still an US citizen? simple as that.
 
Tell me how can she compete for China if she is still an US citizen? simple as that.
Because the govt might have given her a secret pass.

There’s a lot of weird secrets about this family, the first has to do with their mystery unknown father with no name. Most likely just a sperm donation chosen by the mom. She probably requested a 6’3 blonde white male with a Harvard degree or something.
 
Because the govt might have given her a secret pass.

There’s a lot of weird secrets about this family, the first has to do with their mystery unknown father with no name. Most likely just a sperm donation chosen by the mom. She probably requested a 6’3 blonde white male with a Harvard degree or something.
This is impossible, China never did that and will never do it. Please stay reasonable.
 
Sure keep telling yourself that
China may change its law for Xi jingping, but that also needs the approval from the People's congress, and it took years of discussion and speculation, China won't do it for Gu. And if Gu was found representing China while holding an US passport, you can imagine the backlash the Chinese communist party will face home and abroad, do you think Chinese government is this stupid?
 

Eileen Gu's sponsors show 'the corrupt and weak corporations of America': Cain​

— it's not the ungrateful child of America. It's the corrupt and weak corporations of America."

By Graham Colton | Fox News

Published 3 hours ago


Fox News host Will Cain exposed the "corrupt and weak corporations of America" like American-born Olympic skier Eileen Gu's sponsors Wednesday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

Gu will compete for China in the upcoming Beijing Olympics. She is sponsored by Louis Vuitton and Victoria's Secret, among other companies.

" … [T]here's very few American companies that wouldn't and haven't already done the same thing as Eileen Gu," Cain said. "They've already turned their back on the United States of America in exchange for Chinese riches, and that's why she's a symbol. You want to look at something to be really upset about — it's not the ungrateful child of America. It's the corrupt and weak corporations of America."

Cain pointed out "the inherent immorality of capitalism devoid from a moral, principled grounding."

He called Gu "ungrateful, for her to betray, turn her back on the country that not just raised her, but turned her into a world-class skier with the training and facilities that only the United States of America can provide. For her to then turn her back on that in exchange for money is shameful."

Cain compared her to a child moving out of the "warm home" in which they were raised, warning that she "will soon … come to regret it."

Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai "mysteriously disappeared" after accusing former Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault in November, Cain noted.

"Eileen Gu, I think, has had to sacrifice her American passport," he said. "So welcome to China. I hope stardom and the riches that you have earned through betraying America are all worth it, because you have definitely sold out."

 
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A lot of Chinese female businesswomen are like this. Just opportunistic and manipulative people. Eileen’s mother is completely like this.

Eileen herself is a sweet beautiful girl though but honestly she should be representing the country that raised her and made her a star athlete. It’s just about human decency really.

priti Patel current U.K. home office minister was demoted sanctioned in the past for her pro Indian roots to start a discussion with Israel and india. It’s forbidden for ministers to do this with out approval she didn’t care wanted to help india short off denouncing her Britishness

How many sportsman has Qatar , uae , poached of other countries to there own national Olympic or football teams.

Girl has strong Chinese heritage which maybe she was okay to play for China. This stuff happens all time it’s just my Chinese friend Beast high lights china power to much here
 
It’s not really her decision but her mother, who designed her whole life from getting a tall blonde sperm donor for artificial insemination (this is my guess)

I didn't want to be the one to say it...but it looks like you have come to the exact same conclusion that I did...the clincher was the Harvard part.
 
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