Ailing Gu apparently spent every summer in China as she was growing up. She is fluent in Mandarin. Growing up in a Chinese household with a Chinese grandmother and mother, I think she probably feels very Chinese.
Her mother is an interesting case however.
If you do the math, she had her daughter when she was 40. She came to the US to get some science degrees, then ditched those for an MBA, rotated around finance firms and pushing the boundaries of natural conception got herself knocked up before it was too late. Despite all that degree chasing, she didn't get land the MRS degree. Being an elective single mother is taboo in China so it must have been a desperate decision.
All that education only to end up a ski instructor in Tahoe.

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It's rather interesting that Zhu renounced her US citizenship in 2018 to become a Chinese citizenship. Her father who is an award winning scientist in artificial intelligence was working at UCLA, but now he is at Peking University. She is obviously not a great skater so it begs the question . . . did they want her or her father?

She can reclaim her US citizenship, I believe. She may not be a great skier but she may be better than any China has to offer so it is still a plus for their effort. Interesting re her dad. Also, has she always used "Gu" as her family name or did she drop her father's name to be more Chinese?

Reclaiming US citizenship isn’t some automatic or easy thing. In most cases it’s impossible. She’s now a Chinese citizen. No American anything. That’s gone. China can decide she doesn’t leave China for college and disappear her like Peng and she has no recourse. They can take money she makes or retaliate against her family if she makes headlines for the wrong reasons. An iPhone video of her saying Hong Kong is being handled poorly surfaces, and she’s done.

It not a position I’d want for my daughter. Especially after Peng’s allegations. But I guess if you are a 15 year old Asian American kid, you do what your parents say.

The most hypocritical part about it all is that Gu is a supporter of movements like BLM, yet at the same time competes for a country oppressing many types of ethnic minorities. I mean Stanford really let this walking ball of two faced hypocrisy through their doors? I though academia in the US were supposed to be the last line of defense for western ideology, democracy, and freedom of speech....

Oppressing minorities? What are you talking about? The Chinese constitution protects minority groups. Heck, minority representatives to the National People's Congress even get to wear their ornate ceremonial clothing to all meetings (where they are taken very very seriously).

Right, and Chinese ethnic minorities were exempt from the one child policy when it was in effect. They were allowed to have more than the urban Han were allowed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtTU-vunubY&t=29s

This is a video that Gu training with another future gold medalist Su in Beijing. The cost of training in China is probably much lower.

Don’t turn US into a country like China! The benefit of living in US is allowing free will and free voice! I don’t like Gu’s decision to represent China in Olympic. But Gu and her family should have the freedom to choose what they want. I think it’s all about money and fames. She is not going to make as much money in US as in China. She us going to make thousands of millions of dollars in China. Over 30+ big companies & brands in China already signed the contract with Gu to use her for advertisement. Money greedy!

It is always interesting to read Taiwan media about China. Here’s some of their coverage of social media content about Gu.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4438955

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How about Americans who get college paid for and then go to work in other countries and for other countries? Are they hypocrites?

Way to compare apples to oranges. Other countries have specific scholarship programs intended for anyone, including people who are not citizens. They also have scholarship programs intended for their own citizens. It'd be like a German citizen in Germany enjoying all of the scholarship programs for German citizens only, yet going out an competing for Russia.

Gu enjoys everything about the US, yet enriches herself competing for China. The hypocrisy is truly astounding. It's funny how progressives will defend her when she competes for the country systematically wiping out Uyghurs while the same progressives will chastise China over the issue. You can't have it both ways.

Wtf are you talking about? No one I know who is a progressive is “defending” Gu. Frankly, I find her participation on behalf of China and her plastic surgery to be really gross.

She's had plastic surgery at her age?

Why would she have had plastic surgery? I haven’t seen anything about that.