{"id":308392,"date":"2026-10-27T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=308392"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:51:04","slug":"kylian-mbappe-dropped-by-chinese-brands-over-dictator-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/308392\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 dropped by Chinese brands over &#8221;dictator&#8221; comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Major brands in China have dropped Kylian Mbapp&eacute; over a clip in which the French football megastar appeared to mock Mao Zedong, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/kylian-mbappe-dropped-by-chinese-brands-over-dictator-comment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, widely shared on X, Mbapp&eacute; is asked about the funniest internet meme he has seen featuring himself. He said it was of his face photoshopped onto that of &ldquo;some guy &mdash; I think he&rsquo;s a Chinese dictator.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In China, jokes about Mao Zedong, the country&rsquo;s modern founding leader, are considered disrespectful.<\/p>\n<p>Beverage-maker Dongpeng and dairy giant Mengniu announced that they were ending agreements with the French player, although neither mentioned the video as the reason.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our company firmly opposes and has a zero-tolerance policy towards any behaviour that offends national sentiments,&rdquo; Dongpeng said in its statement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With immediate effect our company is terminating all cooperation with Kylian Mbapp&eacute;,&rdquo; Mengniu said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state broadcaster CCTV is suspending showing matches from Spanish top division La Liga. Mbapp&eacute; plays club football for Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major brands in China have dropped Kylian Mbapp&eacute; over a clip in which the French football megastar appeared to mock Mao Zedong, Politico writes. In the video, widely shared on X, Mbapp&eacute; is asked about the funniest internet meme he has seen featuring himself. He said it was of his face photoshopped onto that of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":308387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-sport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308393,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308392\/revisions\/308393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}