XIA WENXIN—In fact, the US media coverage of the Winter Olympics has long strayed from the sports event itself. Judging from how they cover Gu’s story, it is evident they question or even deny an individual’s personal choices from a geopolitical perspective. Such a mistaken way of thinking has made US news reports biased.
For some US elites, Gu’s mistake is that she chose China, a country that is nothing but a “parvenu” in their eyes. Therefore, they cannot imagine or understand why people like Gu would “betray” the world’s greatest power.