I find it really ironic that they disqualified Babel considering that it was pretty anti-imperialistic and pro-China (though pre-CCP). They just hate Kuang because her grandfather fought against the CCP.
Zhao made enough anti CCP comments on her youtube videos breaking down Asian media represtation in media with 100,000s views. Kuang is graduate from Georgetown School of Foreign Policy.
Their background/online behaviors will inherently trigger enough folks on selection committee / slate voting factions to disqualify them on background/affliation alone. They're basically PRC sad/rabid puppies. There's nothing more that male PRC nationalists hate than diasphora Chinese women who carry water for western narratives / propaganda. PRC nationalists enjoys trolling female Chinese reporters working for western media platforms. Male skewing SFF crowd likely has large nationalist overlap since SFF is being elevated in PRC propagada. Chinese organizers likely have no problem doing some big digging in these authors backgrounds and disqualify then out of their own accord. This felt entirely predictable/inevitable.