In Alysa Liu and Eileen Gu, China and America See a Mirror Image
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The Olympic athletes are the subject of uncomfortable public comparisons that present online narratives that overlap more than both sides may realize.
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When Ms. Liu won gold medals in Milan, she became a problem that China’s censorship apparatus could not quite solve. Praise for her skating on the internet in China was often followed by vague warnings, usually from commenters, to “look up her family background and political orientation.” They couldn’t be more specific and had to resort to euphemisms and coded language because references to June 4, 1989, the date of the Tiananmen massacre, are heavily censored. She is sometimes called a “second-generation anti-China figure.”
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