People keep saying that Alyssia Liu refused to compete for China; is this true? Did we even ask her? Firstly, I'm under the impression that China does not approach foreign nationals of any ethnicity to ask if they want to join our Olympic team. Secondly, knowing her father is a hanjian, why would anyone even ask?
There has been an enormous amount of cope on American media regarding these 2 girls:
The first story is a desperate attempt to explain why Gu chose China instead of the US; they say China offered her several millions to do it and she's just being a very American business-woman. She's very rich but from my understanding, it's from all the private Chinese sponsorships after she won her 2 gold medals, not directly from the government. The Americans simply cannot fathom why a half Chinese girl raised by her Chinese mother would want to represent China, a country that is in reality, cleaner, friendlier and more advanced than the US.
The second story is an emphatic embellishment of Liu's story. Liu was born as an IVF baby in the US to a self-hating Chinese man who couldn't hook up with trailer trash if he offered her a house to live in. But I've seen made up stories say that she escaped massacre at TianAnMen with her father. And from then on, she's resisted relentless offers and threats from the CCP to join the Chinese Olympic team.
This is how pathetic American media is trying to cope and sooth the public over Eileen's choice. They really wouldn't even talk about Liu or her background (they don't talk about any other Chinese athlete who ever represented the US) if Gu, being clearly the more attractive of the 2, didn't throw all their hearts into an acid bath.
(Funniest exchange I've seen is someone on Facebook hating on Eileen with pulsating forehead veins like, "I don't hate people; my philosophy is to live and let live, but I absolutely HATE Elieen Gu. She's a traitor with mid level looks that sold herself to China." And a guy who's as American as you can look comments, "If that's mid, I've been dating some werewolves all my life.")