Former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley weighed in on American-born skier and Beijing Games star Eileen Gu."Every athlete needs to know when they put their flag on, you're standing for freedom or you're standing for human rights abuses," she said.
Former US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has weighed in on American-born freestyle skier Eileen Gu, telling the Olympic medalist who has become China's new darling to pick a country. "In terms of the citizenship, look, China or the US? You have got to pick a side. Period. You've got to pick a side because you're either American or you're Chinese, and they are two very different countries," Haley, who served as UN ambassador under Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019, said in an interview with"Every athlete needs to know when they put their flag on, you're standing for freedom or you're standing for human rights abuses.
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