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| China has many reasons to be proud of its Olympians in Tokyo, starting with the fact that they have won the most medals so far of any country. But some social media users are turning on their own athletes, accusing them of being insufficiently patriotic. |
| The attacks come as nationalist fervor is swelling across China, fanned by aggressive diplomatic rhetoric, anti-Western sentiment and the country’s increasing confidence in its role on the global stage. |
| After Yang Qian, a 21-year-old sharpshooter, claimed the first gold medal of the Games on Saturday, some users on Weibo, a Twitter-like platform, began pouring abuse on her for sharing photographs of her Nike shoe collection in December. Some Chinese have recently pledged to boycott the company for its promise to stop using cotton from the Xinjiang region because of concerns about forced labor. Yang soon deleted the post. |
| Another sharpshooter, Wang Luyao, drew scorn after failing to qualify for the finals of her event. She posted a selfie on Weibo with the caption, “Sorry everybody, I admit I was weak, see you in three years.” Some users immediately said her inclusion of a selfie proved she had taken the Games too lightly. “Did we send you to the Olympics to represent the country just to be weak?” one popular comment said. Wang also deleted her post. |
| The nationalist attacks also spread to Hong Kong, which as a semiautonomous territory fields its own Olympic team. A pro-Beijing politician said on Sunday that he “strongly condemned” Ka Long Angus Ng, a badminton player, for competing in a black jersey that did not have the official logo of the Hong Kong government. “If you don’t want to represent Hong Kong, China, then withdraw!” the politician, Nicholas Muk, wrote on Facebook. The color black is often associated with Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters. |
| In an Instagram post, Ng explained that he had worn his own clothing for the match because his sponsorship deal had ended. He could not wear the Hong Kong logo because its use is regulated by the government, he added. The back of his shirt had included the words “Hong Kong China.” |
| Facebook users heavily ridiculed Muk’s accusations, and he eventually deleted not just the post but his entire page. The head of Hong Kong’s delegation to Tokyo said on Monday that the episode should not be politicized. |
| There was also some backlash in mainland China to the nationalist commenters; some social media users pointing out that Yang’s Nike post predated the backlash to the company over Xinjiang cotton. Global Times, a state-owned tabloid, said that 33 Weibo users had been suspended for insulting or defaming Wang, the other sharpshooter. |
| But Chinese officials, in urging that the Olympics be kept separate from politics, have at times seemed to do just the opposite. |
| On Saturday, the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka criticized a photograph that Reuters had selected to accompany a story about a Chinese weight lifting gold medalist. The image showed the athlete, Hou Zhihui, with a strained facial expression mid-lift. The embassy, on Twitter, called Reuters “ugly” and “shameless,” suggesting that it had purposely chosen an unflattering image. |
| But China Daily, a state-owned publication, had also used a similar photograph in its own report about Hou. |
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