{"id":1269447,"date":"2022-02-03T21:53:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T02:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1269447"},"modified":"2022-02-03T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T02:53:34","slug":"u-s-olympian-posts-chinese-propaganda-from-beijing-on-tiktok-despite-espionage-warnings-china-applauds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-olympian-posts-chinese-propaganda-from-beijing-on-tiktok-despite-espionage-warnings-china-applauds\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Olympian Posts Chinese Propaganda from Beijing on TikTok Despite Espionage Warnings, China Applauds"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fu-s-olympian-posts-chinese-propaganda-from-beijing-on-tiktok-despite-espionage-warnings-china-applauds%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=1269447&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Summer-Britcher-posts-Tik-Tok-2-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>The Chinese Communist government sternly warned Olympic athletes not to engage in any unauthorized political speech or post anything provocative through the relatively \u201copen\u201d Internet service at the Olympic Village, but Chinese state media roundly applauded an American athlete for gushing&nbsp; over the \u201cincredible\u201d accommodations she found in Beijing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Olympic Village was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/beijing-china-olympics-internet-censorship-35e1cd8e-0af4-4175-825b-19ee68fd8e34.html\"><span>provided<\/span><\/a><span> with special Internet connections that allow access to websites and services forbidden to Chinese citizens, such as Twitter and Facebook. Supposedly, these special connections would not be monitored by Chinese authorities, but no one even pretended to believe that.<\/span><\/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><span>The \u201copen\u201d Internet access came with warnings that China would <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/2022\/01\/19\/china-winter-olympics-politics-speech\/\"><span>punish<\/span><\/a><span> athletes for political speech or \u201cracial propaganda,\u201d which, of course, would include any discussion of China\u2019s genocide against the Uyghur Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Human Rights Watch (HRW) actually held a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/athletes-warned-against-speaking-up-human-rights-beijing-games-2022-01-18\/\"><span>seminar<\/span><\/a><span> in January in which it warned athletes to avoid all discussion of human rights to ensure their own safety. American athletes were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/01\/14\/team-usa-urges-athletes-to-use-burner-phones-thwart-chinese-spying-genocide-games\/\"><span>advised <\/span><\/a><span>to bring burner cell phones to evade Chinese surveillance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, when 27-year-old American luger Summer Britcher filmed herself dashing about the Beijing Olympic Village in delight and praising the Chinese government for her accommodations, the video was allowed to go viral and was promoted by Chinese state media, along with other athlete videos that made China\u2019s \u201cclosed loop\u201d Olympics system look good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChinaDaily\/status\/1489089374298025984\"><span>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChinaDaily\/status\/1489089374298025984<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202202\/1250310.shtml\"><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>offered pats on the head all around on Tuesday:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cI have something incredible to share,\u201d said US athlete Summer Britcher in a TikTok video, in which she shows off and details the luxurious remote-controlled beds the athletes sleep in at the Olympic Village in Beijing.&nbsp;<\/span><span>In a follow-up clip, Britcher was seen happily tucked in and said, \u201cI\u2019m in Zero-G mode now. It\u2019s phenomenal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More than that, videos showing athletes learning Chinese Kung Fu, high-tech setups unveiled in the villages, such as robots bartenders and meals delivered from the ceiling in the restaurants of the Beijing Winter Olympics villages also went viral online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u2026 Many athletes who\u2019ve been approaching the end of their Olympic careers also thanked China\u2019s efforts in holding the once in a four-year international sports event during such a difficult time as pandemic still rages across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cTikTok users have already engaged heavily with Olympics-related content, which has pulled in over 18 billion views on the platform,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>boasted, citing statistics from TikTok\u2019s U.S. media partner, NBCUniversal.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>TikTok is a Chinese-owned video microblogging platform suspected of <\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tiktok-security-risk-china-biden-11643807751?tesla=y\">posing<\/a> security risks<\/span><span> to its users and sharing their data with the Chinese government. The U.S. military has banned service members from using TikTok on government-issued devices. The Trump administration tried to ban TikTok outright, but the ban was blocked by federal court rulings, which the Biden administration chose not to appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese Communist government sternly warned Olympic athletes not to engage in any unauthorized political speech or post anything provocative through the relatively \u201copen\u201d Internet service at the Olympic Village, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1269447","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\/1269447","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269447\/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=1269447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}