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Olympian Eileen Gu’s decision to snub US and ski for China is nothing short of a hypocrisy

It isn’t easy being Eileen Gu. 

The champion freestyle skier said the other day, after she had to settle for a silver medal in an event at the Olympics, that “sometimes it feels like I’m carrying the weight of two countries on my shoulders.”

Gu would be carrying the weight of only one country if she had chosen to represent her native USA at the games, rather than a hostile totalitarian state. 

Gu skis for China, a choice that is a little like deciding to a represent a fascist country during the 1930s.

China is bent on undermining US power and supplanting Western values.

It runs a gulag and has established a surveillance state that would make George Orwell blush.

People — and robots — in China are getting ready for grand Lunar New Year celebration

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