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That includes listening to those with different views and understanding that there are many shades of pro-China Singaporeans

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On Xigua Video, a video-sharing platform owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance and popular among young viewers in China, there is an avalanche of videos about American skier Eileen Gu.

There are, of course, many clips of her freestyle skiing - the sport in which she won two gold medals during the Beijing Winter Olympics in January.

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