'Shock' 中 The spy victim defended the Chinese national team for 'Patriot Betrayal → 130 billion jackpot' and 'Irony'... "It's not a shame"

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The U.S. figure hero, who overcame the persistent espionage and threats of the Chinese authorities and won the Olympic gold medal, defended the player who chose the Chinese national team even though he was born in the U.S. Figure skating star Alyssa Liu (21, USA) publicly supported freestyle ski champion Gu Ailing (23, American name Aileen Gu).

The U.S. media "Fox News" reported on the 9th (Korea Standard Time) that Alyssa Liu pointed out in an interview with the "New York Times" that she was "hypocrisy" toward those who criticized Gu I-ling.

Rio won the gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina D'Ampezzo, while Gu Ailing played for the U.S. and China. Both players are from the San Francisco Bay Area and children of Chinese immigrants.

But Liu lived a completely different life from Guai Ling. According to 'GB News', Rio's father, Arthur Liu, defected to the United States during the Tiananmen incident in 1989 while leading the democratization movement. This has made Liu's family a persistent target of Chinese intelligence agents since 2021.

To sum up local reports, Liu suffered seriously from Chinese espionage. China was found to have disguised itself as a U.S. Olympic Committee official to demand a copy of its passport to win Liu as a member of the Chinese national team, or tried to install hidden cameras at home with GPS trackers on its vehicles. Due to this maneuvering, Liu suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the tender age of 16, and suddenly announced his retirement.

Rio, who returned afterwards, became the first American woman to win an Olympic figure skating gold medal since Sarah Hughes in 2002 at the Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics last month, writing a drama of human victory. Chinese spy Matthew Djiboutris, who threatened the Liu family, is convicted and faces up to 15 years in prison.

As such, Liu, who suffered from the shaking of his life by the Chinese Communist Party regime, made an ironic move to defend Gu Ailing, who has grown up in the United States and is building astronomical wealth as a Chinese national representative. "I've known Eileen since I was 13," Liu said in the New York Times. "His mother is an immigrant. People have been telling immigrants to return to your country, but they get angry when they go to the game on behalf of China," he said.

Liu, who has lived the opposite life, said, "Sports are just sports. There is no shame in going where there is an opportunity," he stressed.

On the other hand, even though he enjoys the education system and freedom of the U.S., Gu Ai-ling has chosen a Chinese national team to make unimaginable profits. According to Forbes, Gui-ling's cumulative revenue from 2022 to 2025 amounted to $87.4 million (about 127.6 billion won). In particular, "Daily Mail" revealed that Gu I-ling received $6.6 million (about 9.6 billion won) from the Chinese authorities in 2025 alone, and the amount received over the past three years was nearly $14 million (about 20.4 billion won).

The view in the U.S. remains cold. U.S. Vice President JD Vance directly hit Gui-ling, saying, "Anyone who has benefited from the United States should play for the United States of course," and NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom said, "Gui-ling is a traitor. He strongly criticized that he is building a reputation on behalf of the dictatorship. In particular, on human rights issues such as China's oppression of the Uighurs, Guai-ling said, "It's not my job and I won't come up with a position. "I need first-hand evidence," he said, drawing criticism.

Gu I-ling also confessed through "The Athletic" that he was physically assaulted or threatened to kill in the United States after choosing the Chinese national team. He said, "Are you jealous? I'm attacking because I'm the winner, he said. "It's a problem that arises because people hate China by tying it up as a huge entity."

Despite the controversy, he was sure of his skills. Gu Ai-ling added one gold and two silver medals at the Winter Olympics, winning a total of six medals, signaling his robustness.

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