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(TibetanReview.net, Oct27’26) – French football star Kylian Mbappé has faced severe backlash from China after he jokingly remarked that the funniest internet meme he had seen was that of his face photo-shopped onto that of “a Chinese dictator”, taken as an unmistakable reference to Mao Zedong, Communist China’s founding father.
In China, jokes about Mao, the country’s founding leader who died in 1976, are considered disrespectful and remain a social taboo. There is also a law in China which punished people who show disrespect toward the country’s heroes.
Mbappé reportedly told French talk show The Bridge that a meme “that makes me laugh the most&he...
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