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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting that her Insta has her American name.

Sounds like it was a family decision, though. Her dad took a position there after being a professor at UCLA.[/quote]

If that's the case I guarantee there are going to be some broken families soon enough. I think I've heard of three Olympic athletes of Chinese descent who gave up U.S. citizenship and rights to compete in 2022 Games.

Nevermind that the games were severely downsized (along with sponsorship opportunities) because of a pandemic no one could have predicted back in 2018, they also gave up something that will serve them for a lifetime, especially when their own parents fled China for a better education, opportunities, and life. They were the golden children pre-Olympics but if they lose (and I think Gu so far is safe) - they've lost so much more than they realized with a monumental decision they made at 18. Old enough to drive and go to war and lose your citizenship but a decision like that - I wouldn't forgive my parents for coercing or influencing in any way.[/quote]

She began representing China at 2018.  We don't know when she relinquished her citizenship but if it happened in 2018, then she would have been 16 and decisions made at that age are easily reversible. All you have to do is say you were coerced or didn't understand what you were doing. [/quote]

Mmmhmm, and daddy who was bought by the CCP to work on Chinese AI technology? LOL The state is not going to just let him go. They paid for him and put his daughter on the Olympics team. He's got to re-pay his debt and push Chinese scientific development to success. The fact that he brought his daughter along for the ride, knowing what it was like growing up in Chinese society but a 16/19-year-old born-and-raised in southern California having no clue - is just too bad.[/quote]

That's a bit racist of you.   I mean Saudi Arabia and Dubai are way more oppressive than China and they are full of American expats on lucrative contracts, better than what they could find stateside.  Why do you begrudge people an opportunity to pursue things abroad? Why does is burn you so much that someone may have prefer a country other than America at a certain point of life?[/quote]

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