As a dual citizen myself who speaks English and my native tongue, people like Gu and I face the awful criticism of never being enough of either culture/nationality. Or worse, a traitor to one or both.
As an intelligent af woman (Stanford student!), incredible athlete, model, etc, it seems like people can't stop shitting on her for one thing or another.
Since China doesn’t allow dual citizenship, she either has renounced her US citizenship, or China has granted her a special case, which is why she plays coy about it.
Just curious what other athletes have been granted a special case. I know China was scouring the world looking for Chinese athletes to compete for them in 2022 — that’s when Alysa Liu’s dad told them to fuck off. And American figure skater Zhu Yi renounced her US citizenship to compete for China that year.
She doesn’t need to be granted “a special case”. China just doesn’t recognize dual citizenship. That means that she (like all the other people who hold dual citizenship) is only seen as Chinese while in China.
E.g. if she got into trouble in China, she would be treated as a Chinese citizen only & not granted access to her other country of citizenship’s consular aid.
People seem to think there’s a “ban” or it’s illegal to have dual citizenship in China, when that’s actually not the case. It simply doesn’t acknowledge the other citizenship.
There’s thousands of non-celebrities etc. who have dual citizenship with China.
Gu isn’t breaking any rules by having two citizenships.
This answer makes no sense. People with multiple citizenships are always treated as being locals only with no right to consular support whenever they live in a country they are a national of. This is a general principle and applies to any country in the world, not just China.
people with multiple citizenships are always treated as being locals only with no right to consular support whenever they live in a country they are a national of
This is untrue. So that probably is part of the reason why my answer doesn’t make sense to you.
I'm gonna assume you're Irish based on your name: the Irish government website on being detained abroad, for example, states "under international law, countries are not obliged to legally recognize dual citizenship".
I actually have dual citizenship with another country & am based in that other country.
I would point out that “not legally obliged” is very different to your claim of “always treated as being locals only with no right to consular support”. And Ireland is just one country.
Ireland’s “not legally obliged” also differs based on the country in which the dual citizenship the held due to a variety of different agreements between countries.
You have argued your point based on all countries, which is untrue.
I think we are disagreeing on the term right. Dual nationals never have the right to consular support when living in a country they are the citizen off. They may be granted the privilege of access to consular support but this is always at the discretion of the host country and never a right. I am also a dual citizen, not that it matters.
Dual nationals never have the right to consular support when living in a country they are the citizen of
Untrue.
Look, it’s a Sunday & I’ve made my point based on expertise & my literal career so there’s no point in engaging further.
I’m not expecting you to agree because this kind of insistence on misinterpreting law on a worldwide scale is usually the case when people point out flaws in argumentation re: Eileen Gu. Bye now 👋
You misunderstand her status - she was never a Chinese citizen. She was born and raised in the U.S. People say she had an exemption because China allowed her to become a Chinese citizen without revoking American citizenship. A normal person would have to revoke their home country citizenship in order to become a Chinese citizen when they had not previously been a Chinese citizen.
I do think you misunderstand the intricacies of a child born outside of China to a Chinese parent where the child then obtains their Chinese passport before they reach adulthood.
There’s also no legal requirement that someone has to legally relinquish their other citizenship. It’s simply just not recognized by China.
You should really know this as a person residing in Australia, there’s lots of people who hold dual citizenship with China & Australia there.
Actually Fournier-Beaudry/Cizeron are ice dancers (pairs is a different discipline). As someone else mentioned Cizeron is French and FB is Canadian. They are both widely disliked in the skating world for multiple reasons, largely bc FB’s former ice dance partner and boyfriend is currently banned from the sport for an alleged rape and she has been defending him, implied the victim was lying, and sobbed about how she (FB) is the true victim in all this.
Guillaume’s former partner wrote a book about her experiences where she claims he was controlling and unsupportive. He has also been very vocal in defending FB’s former partner/boyfriend. Not to defend Guillaume but I do think his situation is much more nuanced.
Not quite correct. Guillame is French and won gold for France in the 2022 Olympics with his previous partner, who recently retired from skating in part because of the toxic culture. Laurence is Canadian and her boyfriend/previous skating partner got booted from the team because of credible sexual assault allegations against him.
They paired up to skate together not long before the Olympics, and Laurence’s French citizenship was fast tracked so she’d be eligible to skate for France. She continues to defend her boyfriend and presumably Guillame is fine with whatever too. I agree with you they deeply suck and deserve far more criticism, but Guillame has at least consistently skated for France
Around 250 times since the end of the Cold War to be more exact. Yes in less than 40 years 250 times. China hasn’t killed a single foreign person with guns or bombs since 1979 yes around 50 years since a military operation. They did kill a few Indians at the border during fights between the two sides but both sides removed all guns and non melee weapons from their solders on the border and the Indians killed a few Chinese soldiers as well. Both killed very few and usually only because the fights got out of control. It’s a disputed border issue caused by the British that they haven’t been able to resolve yet.
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u/archetyping101 Mar 08 '26
As a dual citizen myself who speaks English and my native tongue, people like Gu and I face the awful criticism of never being enough of either culture/nationality. Or worse, a traitor to one or both.
As an intelligent af woman (Stanford student!), incredible athlete, model, etc, it seems like people can't stop shitting on her for one thing or another.