Eileen Gu playfully dissed JD Vance’s criticism of her at the Winter Olympics on Thursday. Responding to outrage over the U.S.-born freestyle ski star competing for China in her second straight Olympics, the vice president said recently, “I certainly think that somebody who grew up in the United States of America, who benefited from our…
Gu Ailing says it is “sweet” that JD Vance thinks she should be competing for the United States after the American vice-president called her out for representing China. Gu, who also goes by the anglicised Eileen Gu, was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University. However, she has competed for China internationally since…
The New Year may have been a little low key as far as sport in Hong Kong is concerned, but 2026 is promising to be just as busy as the past 12 months. Along with major events such as the Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens, LIV Golf and the return of the World Table Tennis Finals,…
Call them China’s Sputnik moments: DeepSeek. BYD and Xiaomi cars. A robot Olympics in Beijing. Huawei’s resurgence. And Labubu. Labubu did its job. The little gremlin doll made it clear that a brand being from China is no longer shorthand for cheap. Pop Mart has built trust to such an extent that company management is…