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Chinese brands drop Mbappe over alleged Mao Zedong joke

Chinese brands drop Mbappe over alleged Mao Zedong joke

Kylian Mbappe was dropped Tuesday by two major brands in China after a video circulated online in which the French football superstar apparently joked about former 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. “Our company firmly opposes and

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