During the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, two American-born Chinese athletes captured the world’s attention. American figure skater Alysa Liu won the gold medal in the women’s singles, the first Olympic gold for the United States in this event in 24 years. Her Instagram following surged to 5.3 million, and her story was hailed by conservatives as a “victory for American loyalty.” In contrast, Eileen Gu, representing China, won one gold and two silver medals, bringing her total Olympic medal count to six. Yet her followers increased to only 3.7 million.
Though both are California-born, single-parent prodigies, their national allegiances led them down very different paths — reflecting a fundamental contrast in parental values: one guided by freedom and loyalty, the other by self-interest and a double life. Guangyu Jiang, a social media influencer, attributes the divergent paths of Liu and Gu to their parents’ drastically different aspirations: one is an opponent of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), while the other has been accused of being a CCP sympathizer.
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