Beijing
Who women Chinese government wants support – rich top athletes or incompetent victims of human trafficking?
Why the state machinery is doing its best to elevate a gold medalist, a wonder man Gu Ailingin honor and to silence the debate on the trafficked victim?
So the state proudly keeps the beautiful and rich in the spotlight and dims the problems of China’s still poor rural areas for the most part.
This has been an increasingly censored topic of discussion on Chinese social media in recent days.
Very few in China belong to the extremes – drunken successors or victims of human trafficking – but the large middle class of Chinese women now equate these two cases.
In January a video of a woman chained to a metal chain around her neck in a zero-degree hut in Jiangsu Province spread. He had little clothes, he looked malnourished and sick. It turned out he has eight children. The youngest was 2 years old, the oldest in his twenties.
Authorities intervened, claiming that the woman was the official wife of a man living in a real house nearby. The children lived with the man.
However, citizens and Chinese journalists investigated further and put pressure. In the end, the authorities admitted that the woman was a victim of human trafficking and that she was from another province.
There is still some trafficking in women in China, and women who are bought are often treated badly.
His online people were enraged. It did not understand why the local authorities, who most certainly knew about the woman, had not intervened in the case before. The eye of the authorities reaches every block of rural China.
Why are the authorities not defending weaker women? How many women are at risk, maybe even my daughter? The Chinese some was asked.
The debate has been heavily censored.
At the same time At the time, Chinese state-affiliated media and their social media accounts have praised 18-year-old Gu Ailing, who grew up in the U.S., competing in the Chinese team. He is a big star in freestyle skiing and a fresh gold medalist.
Gu Ailing, Eileen Gu in the United States, has said she wants to inspire young Chinese women by example.
Gu is the top of the top athletes. He has also done incomparably well in his studies. She is a model and is rich in sponsorship agreements.
In Chinese some, Gu has been loved and admired, but there is now a debate about how realistic he is. Ordinary bulges in China will not be able to push to Gun level because they do not have similar resources.
Gulla is a well-networked family in China. His mother had the talents and could afford to pay Gule a variety of expensive hobbies and extra lessons from an early age. He has received raisins from the bun both in his country of residence in the United States and at his summer vacation destination in Beijing.
Gu Ailing posed with his mother at the Youth Olympics in Switzerland in January 2020.
On the other hand, it can be said that the source of inspiration does not have to be a role model in everything. One young woman is inspired to venture into a dangerous sport, another to appear in public with pimples on his face like Gu, a third to believe in himself at all.
Some conversation shows that the feminism that has spread to the common people in recent years is still in full force. Chinese authorities have tried to suppress the widespread solidarity of ill-treated women, such as the #metoo movement, that has spread through Finland.
Read more: The popular movement exposing sexual harassment managed to circumvent censorship and did what no one in China has been able to do.
More than a hundred former students from prestigious universities in Beijing and Tsinghua have just appealed to the authorities to investigate the case of a properly chained woman. The petition immediately disappeared from social media, a Hong Kong newspaper reported South China Morning Post.
The woman has been transferred to hospital for treatment. Two activists traveling to see him were arrested.
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