{"id":1296581,"date":"2022-02-14T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T20:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1296581"},"modified":"2022-02-14T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T20:23:01","slug":"china-hypes-u-s-snowboarder-tessa-maud-for-praising-genocide-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-hypes-u-s-snowboarder-tessa-maud-for-praising-genocide-games\/","title":{"rendered":"China Hypes U.S. Snowboarder Tessa Maud for Praising Genocide Games"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fchina-hypes-u-s-snowboarder-tessa-maud-for-praising-genocide-games%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=1296581&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\/Tessa-Maud-goggles-snow-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Chinese state media on Sunday swooned over American snowboarder Tessa Maud, who won no medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics but made herself useful to the Chinese Communist Party by praising her hosts and gushing over the Olympic Village accommodations at a time when other athletes were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/11\/china-claims-genocide-olympics-providing-banquet-delicacies-after-reports-starving-foreign-athletes\/\"><span>complaining<\/span><\/a><span> about hideous food and substandard living conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chinese media outlets and officials \u2013 who, unlike ordinary Chinese citizens, are permitted to use Western social media platforms to spread Communist propaganda around the world \u2013 gushed over Maud and hailed her as one of China\u2019s favorite foreign athletes:<\/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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">American snowboarder Tessa Maud, who was moved to tears by Chinese volunteers, wept again. On Feb 12, she shared her last day in China on social platforms. Tessa said &#8220;I&#8217;m so sad&#8221;, after a few seconds of silence, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to cry on the plane, I&#8217;m going to choke, love you.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FeWsQnhlPo\">pic.twitter.com\/FeWsQnhlPo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 China Economy (@CE_ChinaEconomy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CE_ChinaEconomy\/status\/1492667033565417472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>on Monday proclaimed that Maud \u201cwon the hearts of the Chinese people\u201d and became a viral sensation on the social media platform Communist subjects <\/span><span>are <\/span><span>allowed to use, Weibo:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>On her last day in China, Maud shared a video on social media saying she is so sad as she was leaving China and she was going to cry on the plane. Her videos went viral on Chinese social media after she caught a heartfelt moment at the opening ceremony of the Games showing a Chinese volunteer saying to her \u201cwelcome to China\u201d with sweet and kind gesture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some Chinese media commented that although she did not claim any medal, she is indeed one of the favorite foreign athletes, as some Chinese netizens said. From day one, Maud used her vlogs to document her life in Beijing, especially her favorite Chinese food. Maud and her teammates also used chopsticks when eating Chinese food such as Kung Pao chicken, roasted duck and fried rice. \u201cEverything is so good,\u201d Maud said in one of her videos.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maud left China on Saturday. The hashtag \u201cshe didn\u2019t win a medal, but succeeded to win the love of Chinese netizens\u201d on China\u2019s Twitter-like Sina Weibo had been viewed more than 100 million times as of Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Maud even won a pat on the head from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, whose spokesman Zhao Lijian <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2511_665403\/202202\/t20220208_10640231.html\"><span>praised<\/span><\/a><span> her video blogging in a press conference last Tuesday:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>I have watched the video clip of Tessa Maud. \u201cThat moment was so crazy like a feeling I have never experienced.\u201d Her sincere and emotional account also touched me. I also noticed that the volunteer Maud was talking about invited Maud to China again in a reply letter, and wished her to excel herself in China. Many Chinese netizens also left messages for Maud, sending their warm wishes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since the opening of the Beijing Olympic Winter Games, many stories like this have passed on warmth, friendship and solidarity. Many of the athletes said that they really enjoy and appreciate what they have experienced in China, and that the thing they love the most is counting the smiling volunteers who waved at them.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Let us give these volunteers a thumbs-up\u2002and\u2002a\u2002round\u2002of applause! I think they\u2019re amazing! Also, many athletes and journalists have posted video clips or written articles on social media, where they praised the room facilities with technological\u2002texture, the robots that can cook and serve the table at the canteens and restaurants, and the healthy and diverse Chinese dishes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cAs people have commented, all the love comes together because of Beijing 2022,\u201d Zhao asserted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>likewise sneered that Maud\u2019s \u201cstory of warmth and friendship\u201d was a \u201cstark contrast to narratives pushed by some Western media, which have been covering China in biased ways, slandering the image of the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state media on Sunday swooned over American snowboarder Tessa Maud, who won no medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics but made herself useful to the Chinese Communist Party by &#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-1296581","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\/1296581","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=1296581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296581\/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=1296581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}