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Analysis: Mbappe’s Mao remarks expose costs of crossing China’s red lines

Analysis: Mbappe’s Mao remarks expose costs of crossing China’s red lines

Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappe’s rapid fall from favour in China after remarks about Mao Zedong followed a familiar pattern: online outrage, corporate distancing, platform restrictions and official intervention.

Within 24 hours of a podcast clip surfacing in which the France captain referred to Mao as “some guy – I think he’s a Chinese dictator”, sponsors including Mengniu Dairy 2319.HK, Shanghai Milkground 600882.SS and energy drink-maker Eastroc 605499.SS ended cooperation with the...

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