Kylian Mbappe loses Chinese sponsors for calling Mao ‘Chinese dictator’
- Mbappe appears to say that the funniest internet meme he had seen was of his face photo-shopped onto that of “a Chinese dictator”.
- Kylian Mbappe has been dropped by two major brands in China after a video circulated online in which the French football superstar apparently joked about former Chinese leader Mao Zedong.
- In China, jokes about Mao, the country’s founding leader who died in 1976, are considered disrespectful and remain a social taboo.
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- Mbappe appears to say that the funniest internet meme he had seen was of his face photo-shopped onto that of “a Chinese dictator”.
- Kylian Mbappe has been dropped by two major brands in China after a video circulated online in which the French football superstar apparently joked about former Chinese leader Mao Zedong.
- In China, jokes about Mao, the country’s founding leader who died in 1976, are considered disrespectful and remain a social taboo.
Sources: Al Jazeera