Sunday, February 27, 2022
Side Chosen
“When I’m in the U.S., I’m American, but when I’m in China, I’m Chinese,” Gu likes to say. Patriotism doesn’t work that way, especially not with a country that within the past three years alone has unleashed a global plague, crushed democracy in Hong Kong, threatened war with Taiwan, and operated a system of concentration camps for religious minorities. Gu may be young (she’s 18) but she’s plenty old enough to have formed a moral judgment about how China does business. By choosing to compete for them anyway she’s become a willing propagandist for an evil regime, a living, breathing billboard that the CCP has done nothing so terrible that a daughter of the United States shouldn’t proudly ally herself with them.
She should never be forgiven.
Perhaps Stanford will rescind their offer of admission and Gu can attend one of China's many fine universities. Just kidding. Gu only betrayed her country. It's not like she posted something rude on Twitter.
