WORLD● LOW4d ago · Oct 28, 2026, 12:20 PM
Mbappé's China faux pas: When the sports world collides with the complexities of geopolitics
France 24 [en] · global
François Picard welcomes Igor Mladenovic, a French-Serbian sports writer, sports business analyst and former football commentator based in Luxembourg. For Mladenovic, the backlash in China over Kylian Mbappé's playful reference to a meme depicting him in the likeness of Mao Zedong illustrates a dilemma of the digital age: How a seemingly innocuous anecdote from a football superstar can escalate into a geopolitical firestorm.
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