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Mbappé's China faux pas: When the sports world collides with the complexities of geopolitics

France 24 ·First reported 5h ago

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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…

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