This is not the first time ESPN has handed China a propaganda win, and it likely won’t be the last, writes ZacharyFaria. The worldwide leader in sports still wants to pretend it has something important to say about politics.
Eileen Gu won the ESPY for best breakthrough athlete during the awards show on Wednesday.
Rather than representing Team USA, Gu chose to represent the People's Republic of China at a time when its continued human rights atrocities were again under the microscope. For her troubles, she raked in tens of millions of dollars in Chinese endorsement deals. If ESPN and the ESPYs truly cared about the social justice hogwash that their moribund network now places well ahead of sports, Gu would not have been nominated at all. Anyone who would willingly choose to represent a genocidal regime during its propaganda-infested Olympic Games should not be honored in any way. Such people should be condemned for that very act.
When ESPN covered the NBA’s China ties in 2019, the outlet used the China-approved “nine-dash line” map, which shows China owning Taiwan and the South China Sea. This map is an expression of China's imperialist ambitions, and China's current rulers become enraged by those who fail to use it.
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