'You're Sick' China's Exaggerated Conspiracy Theories, "South Korea May Deliberately Lose Thailand War to Keep Us in Check"

Honestly, I don't think I could write this off as fiction. Chinese media have claimed that South Korea may have intentionally lost the World Cup qualifier against Thailand to keep their national team in check.

"The South Korean national soccer team may deliberately take Thailand out of the World Cup qualifying match against China in order to keep the Chinese national soccer team in check," Chinese media outlet Sohu claimed on Feb. 2 (KST), adding, "They should deliberately let Thailand get a point and prevent China from being eliminated."

Chinese soccer has suffered a recent decline in quality. In the early to mid-2000s, it was ranked below countries such as South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. In the FIFA rankings released after the November A-Match, China was ranked 79th, below only Oman (74th).

Among Asian Football Confederation (AFC) nations, China is ranked 11th overall, which is weak considering the 8.5 tickets allocated to Asia for the 2026 FIFA North and Central American World Cup. In fact, the average age of China's national team is over 30 years old due to recent generational failures.

China is in Group C of the FIFA 2026 Asian qualifiers alongside South Korea, Thailand, and Singapore. They won the first leg 2-1 away to Thailand, but lost the second leg 0-3 at home to South Korea. This is the lowest goal difference in a trilateral match in history.

Based on their objective record, South Korea was already considered a non-factor. China, who had been hoping for a win against Korea after their victory over Thailand, has realized the reality and is focusing on the fight for second place. Even if they lose against South Korea, they can still make it to the third qualifying round if they beat Thailand.

The battle for second place between Thailand and China continues. First, Thailand will play two home games against South Korea in March A, while China will play two home games against Singapore. While China is facing a relative underdog, Thailand is facing Korea, which is considered to be the top team in the group, so there is a difference in the difficulty of the schedule.

This led to some outlandish claims from China. "It's true that Korea is strong," said Sohu. But I can't say that we didn't benefit from the refereeing against China. "Don't forget the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup," he criticized.

After complaining about the officiating in the face of a clear defeat, Sohu said, "Korea is strong. They can't top the group. We also lost 0-3 at home. So realistically, we should be second in the group, so we should ignore Korea and go past Thailand."

In this situation, Sohu raised a ridiculous conspiracy theory. The outlet quoted him as saying, "You might think that we, China, have an advantage because we caught Thailand away from home. But we shouldn't let our guard down. Considering what the Korean national soccer team has done to China in the past, they may intentionally give Thailand a point to eliminate us." The delusion continued.

"We don't know what Korea will do in the second leg against Thailand, and to avoid that, we must take both games from Singapore. And if we win the home second leg against Thailand, we can go to the third qualifier no matter how much Korea tries to stop us."

In other words, South Korea could rotate or even try to cheat against Thailand to keep China at bay. There's no reason to believe this, but South Korea hasn't even clinched a spot in the third round yet, so it's a ridiculous claim.

From the controversy over the officiating after the Korea game to the outrageous conspiracy theory that the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is organized to keep China in check, China is now making a fool of itself by suggesting that South Korea might intentionally drop a point against Thailand to keep China out.




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