{"id":1077173,"date":"2021-12-02T15:58:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077173"},"modified":"2021-12-02T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:58:37","slug":"retired-nba-star-stephon-marbury-praises-chinas-fauci-promotes-genocide-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retired-nba-star-stephon-marbury-praises-chinas-fauci-promotes-genocide-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired NBA Star Stephon Marbury Praises &#039;China&#039;s Fauci,&#039; Promotes Genocide Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fretired-nba-star-stephon-marbury-praises-chinas-fauci-promotes-genocide-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1077173&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Chinese propaganda site <em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1240421.shtml\">regaled<\/a> former NBA star Stephon Marbury with an extensive profile on Wednesday after Marbury, who has lived in China for 11 years,&nbsp;excitedly praised China\u2019s \u201chospitality,\u201d applauded top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan, and predicted the 2022 Beijing Olympics would be \u201cextraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>Marbury, one of the very few foreigners to receive a Chinese permanent resident \u201cgreen card,\u201d made the remarks at an event called the \u201c2021 Understanding China Conference,\u201d meant to highlight the voices of pro-regime foreigners. Marbury made the move to China after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/marbust01.html\">playing<\/a> 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the largest percentage of them with the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Since being in China, Marbury has become the winningest foreigner in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the subject of a propaganda film, a museum, and a stadium statue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the Olympics we\u2019ll share here in Beijing is going to be extraordinary,\u201d Marbury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1240447.shtml\">told<\/a> Chinese reporters on Wednesday, \u201cEspecially that it\u2019ll happen during this time in our lives under the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the way how the country is handling the pandemic over sports times is the correct way, is the proper way how to do it \u2013 still giving people the opportunity to experience, use the experience in a different way. And I think whenever you get the opportunity to play on the global stage it\u2019s always a treat,\u201d Marbury continued. \u201cI think this is an opportune time for all of the athletes to be able to compete to test themselves and to measure how far they can go based on all the training that they\u2019ve done over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Beijing Olympics are facing global calls for a boycott in response to China\u2019s growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/12\/human-rights-watch-olympics-sponsors-must-pressure-china-stop-atrocities\/\">list<\/a> of human rights atrocities. Boycott demands from human rights activists and victims of the Chinese Communist Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/02\/04\/human-rights-activists-urge-biden-join-boycott-2022-beijing-olympics\/\">began<\/a> last year in response to China\u2019s ongoing genocide of the Uyghur ethnic group of East Turkistan. Extensive documentation has revealed that China, under dictator Xi Jinping, has used killings, gang rape, forced sterilization, slavery, separation of children from families, and organ harvesting to eliminate the Uyghur people and other Muslim minority ethnic groups in western China. Xi has also presided over the building of one of the largest concentration camp systems in history.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, athletes have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/11\/21\/enes-kanter-calls-for-olympics-to-be-moved-from-china-for-peng-shuais-sake\/\">called<\/a>&nbsp;for an Olympics boycott in response to China\u2019s disappearance of Wimbledon winner Peng Shuai after the tennis star accused a senior Communist Party official of raping her.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden, whose administration has deemed China guilty of genocide, has rejected calls for a boycott, claiming to be considering a \u201cdiplomatic\u201d boycott, instead. Chinese media outlets have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/30\/china-biden-diplomatic-boycott-of-olympics-impossible-because-u-s-diplomats-not-invited\/\">noted<\/a> that a \u201cdiplomatic\u201d boycott will be impossible if China does not invite American diplomats to the Games, which it has yet to do.<\/p>\n<p>Marbury also used his appearance at the Chinese government event to praise Zhong, the top infectious disease expert in the country who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/npr\/835308147\/meet-dr-zhong-nanshan-the-public-face-of-the-covid-19-fight-in-china\">many<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/world\/2020\/05\/19\/chinas-dr-fauci-zhong-nanshan-coronavirus-intv-culver-pkg-2-intl-hnk-vpx.cnn\">compared<\/a> to American medical celebrity Anthony Fauci. Marbury\u2019s official account on <a href=\"https:\/\/weibo.com\/stephonmarbury\">Weibo<\/a>, China\u2019s top government-controlled social media outlet, features a photo of Zhong as its header image.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18975306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-02-at-9.18.43-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18975306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-02-at-9.18.43-AM.png\" alt=\"Retired NBA star Stephon Marbury Weibo account featuring photo of Chinese infectious disease expert Zhong Nanshan.\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(Weibo\/screencap)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why I posted his picture [on Weibo] because I felt like he was the person that was giving the information that so many people needed to hear during that time,\u201d Marbury told Chinese media. \u201cI was wathcing a lot of live broadcasts that he was doing and he was speaking English and I was like, \u2018Wow, this guy is really able to communication and talk to everyone on the planet, not just the Chinese people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Marbury described himself as a \u201cfan\u201d of Zhong\u2019s \u201cas a humanitarian&nbsp;and a person who cares for people\u201d and said that, if he ever met Zhong, he would ask \u201cwhat he thinks every day when he wakes up and how is he taking he steps to try to figure out how to contnue to help us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China is the origin nation of the Chinese coronavirus and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/06\/11\/9-ways-unrelated-wuhan-lab-china-created-pandemic\/\">caused<\/a> the ongoing pandemic through censorship of key medical information and poor infectious disease management, including the organizing of an attempt at the world\u2019s largest banquet at the height of the spread in Wuhan and arresting doctors for urging coworkers to wash their hands.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1240421.shtml\">lauded<\/a> Marbury on Wednesday as a \u201cbrilliant player\u201d and applauded his embrace of China. The newspaper praised Marbury for being one of only about 5,000 people to become a permanent resident of China via \u201cgreen card,\u201d omitting any criticism of China\u2019s extremely restrictive immigration policy. It noted that Marbury encouraged other Americans to visit China for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Marbury has been the subject of several major works of Chinese communist propaganda, including an entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/14421623\/stephon-marbury-getting-own-museum-beijing\">museum<\/a> dedicated to his life opened in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stephon Marbury Museum | Grand Opening in China | \u9a6c\u5e03\u91cc\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BC5Fgvpc8cE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Marbury praised Jesus on his Twitter account for the opening of the museum at the time. Christianity is highly regulated in China \u2013 those who do not subscribe to government-run churches face extreme human rights abuses \u2013 and people in China cannot access Twitter without special government exemptions mostly given to regime propagandists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.5744680851064\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheHouseOfMarburyMuseum?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheHouseOfMarburyMuseum<\/a> Jesus Did It PERIOD! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Godisgreat?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Godisgreat<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aNFOfuHYI4\">pic.twitter.com\/aNFOfuHYI4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I AM PEACE STAR (@StarburyMarbury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarburyMarbury\/status\/678968760569499648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Outside of the museum, Marbury also received the honor of a statue in his name.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.7801724137931\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We never asked anyone to change the game we just did it for the next generation to do it without asking. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alleniverson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@alleniverson<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/st3phonn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@st3phonn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/theanswer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#theanswer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/starbury?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#starbury<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/az2FsOa63A\">pic.twitter.com\/az2FsOa63A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I AM PEACE STAR (@StarburyMarbury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarburyMarbury\/status\/1466416834857426945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2017, Marbury <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/3d497a4d3351444e\/share.html\">won<\/a> a \u201cBest New Actor\u201d award for playing himself in&nbsp;<em>My Other Home<\/em>, a propaganda film about how China helped Marbury achieve his true greatness.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stephon Marbury Movie - My other home (\u6211\u662f\u9a6c\u5e03\u91cc) trailer ft. Allen Iverson &amp; Baron Davis\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j7UAjOkH5pA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1638355838791000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3f-VC1mEVAMgc9a4XjmQIT\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1638355838791000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1IGxbABA7P5rlr5CqVUhyy\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese propaganda site Global Times regaled former NBA star Stephon Marbury with an extensive profile on Wednesday after Marbury, who has lived in China for 11 years,\u00a0excitedly praised China\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}