Most are indoctrinated at school….especially the colleges and the media sucks too
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Big Cat,
Can we say the Chinese Communist Party has been uncooperative ? The Chinese People suffered too,I believe.
Go Coogs !
This Thread will be closed b4 end of day also. Few on here wouldn’t even need to come on forum if it wasn’t for Satellite portion. Always the same folks n nothing happens. Wash, rinse, repeat. Wash, rinse, repeat. Sad. Sad!!!
Or by Jesus, the OG socialist
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Excellent post!
There are good ways to offer sources to support an opinion, contention or hypothesis. Being insulting isn’t one.
Do you prefer we turn into a oligarchy? I fear some don’t realize how much they are supporting that and not a democratic America. Let’s give power to the people and make our votes count, or is that too socialist to say?
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Who is supportive of the Chinese and/or Communist direction? No one I’ve heard and I know a lot of people. I read a lot too.
I’ll leave it that.
Cmon Johnny, you know everyday your kids are being taught China is the best at school and then the media repeats it when they get home.
I do like the laughs the satellite provides
Totally agree, they are our world wide competitor. I have concern and respect for them
as a competitor; but never fear them.
Well, there are two girls from US in the winter olympics that are competing
for Team China. The gold medal winner avoids answering her passport status questions.
But is it fair to question an athletes political allegiance or have them answer for all the
accusations against the country they choose to compete for ?
If olympics are just about athletics, it’s out of bounds. But who thinks the olympics
are about political and cultural influence too ?
Yes, your right, the party and people are separate things. But make no mistake a vast majority of Chinese support there government. It’s communism wrap up in nationalism a dangerous and combustible mixture. Go see what there netizens say online about China and it’s relationship to the world and see some of our athletes of Chinese descent born and raised in USA and they compete for China in the Olympics. That skier Eileen Gu skies for them and win gold medals for their country. Personally I don’t think it’s right but she entitled to do whatever she wants. Interesting fact about her and anyone else you can only compete for China if you are a citizen they don’t allow dual citizenship. Press kept asking if she gave up her US citizenship which she would have to do, to compete for China, she refused to answer the question directly kept dodging it. Said she’s living her best life. Really? She’s 18 heavily influenced by her mother of Chinese descent. So being young and idealistic, she has no idea what she is implicating by competing for regime based on totalitarianism and where the masses are to be servile to the state. She just living her best life like she said. Which means more commercial success in China. She was trained here in the U.S. to be the best not China. I say to any American fine just renounce your citizenship publicly (which she probably has not done and I’m sure the communist agreed to allow her to do this, so she could compete for them and win Gold medals which serves their purposes) go compete for China. Can’t have your cake and eat it to but that’s what she wants and others who compete in the Olympics for this on any other regime. I make a law you compete for another in Olympics and your a U.S. citizen you lose your citizenship.
Ya know, from what I’ve heard on TV and read on sports websites, the one Chinese American that flopped in skating has been getting a harsh reception from local Chinese people on social media, who criticize her poor performance, poor command of the Mandarin Chinese language, and lament the fact that a Chinese American likely took an Olympic team spot from one of their own.
The reception for the Chinese American snowboarder has been VERY good though. Though born and raised in the USA, she speaks perfect Mandarin, has endeared herself to the locals, and ended up winning Gold. She’s already a celebrity over there, and is getting endorsement deals.
I would assume that both had to renounce their US citizenship, and give up their passports, but that’s not clear. Maybe she worked out a deal by which she kept her US passport in exchange for not completely becoming a Chinese citizen, or some such.
I always though that one had to be a citizen to compete for any country in the Olympics, but maybe I’m wrong.
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Frontline did a chronological review of the virus from inception. Highly recommend watching it, cuts through a lot of bs.
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For China you have be a citizen no if and or buts about it. No dual citizenship like your able to do here. There netizens can be quite vicious. The regime shutdown those netizens access to post, I guess they don’t want the world to see the ugly side of their people. But that’s what authoritarian regimes do. You get in lockstep with them or else. Right?
Can you give brief synopsis?
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Nope. Too complicated
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Well they think it came from that lab?
Yup
Here’s an even STRANGER story.
China has built an Olympic hockey team consisting mostly of North Americans, many of whom have NO Chinese ancestry and which includes Americans who have kept their US citizenship.
See here.
Quote:
Every player is listed as a member of Kunlun Red Star (Note: a Russian pro team). Per the government’s demand, all of the players imported to represent the country have been rechristened with Chinese-language names. Jeremy Smith is Shimisi Jieruimi. Jake Chelios, the 30-year-old former Detroit Red Wings defenseman and the son of Hockey Hall of Famer Chris Chelios, is Kailiaosi Jieke. Brandon Yip is Jingjuang Ye while Denis Osipov is Aoxibofu Dannisi.
Kunlun refers to those born outside of China as “Heritage and Import” players. China does not allow dual citizenship, but it’s known to make exceptions for foreign athletes.
“I told China that I’ll never give up my [U.S.] passport, and they said that’s fine,” said Smith.
Smith isn’t sure if he has any Chinese heritage. It doesn’t factor into his eligibility to represent the nation. “To play in the Olympics, you have to have a passport for the country [with whom] you’re competing. I looked it up: I think there were 180 Olympians in Tokyo [2020] that participated under a passport that is not of their birth country,” said Smith.
International Ice Hockey Federation rules allow players to represent a country if they’ve spent at least two years living there and playing for the national team. While the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Red Star to relocate from China to just outside Moscow in 2020, the IIHF determined that the North Americans on the roster were eligible to play in the Olympics.
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