The Chinese state-run Global Times applauded its program recruiting Americans to compete in China’s name at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday as proof the country, which is currently engaging in genocide, is “open and diversified.”
19-year-old figure skater Zhu Yi, who was born in California but renounced her American citizenship in 2018 to compete for China, was mercilessly heckled by Chinese social media users after she fell on the ice on Sunday and finished in last place at the Beijing Winter Olympics. The heckling was so intense that Chinese government censors intervened and shut down almost a hundred accounts on Weibo, China’s heavily-controlled alternative to banned Twitter.
Two of the US-born Olympians who abandoned America for Team China have suffered humiliating embarrassments in Beijing.
The American-born Olympic ice skater who gave up her U.S. citizenship to compete for China has fallen on the ice for a second time.
Chinese Olympics fans erupted on social media, furious that US-born skater Zhu Yi defected to China for the games but finished last.
