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Foreign Ministry chides Mbappe over Mao comments
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a sports story. RTHK International News is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Beijing. The first report grouped here was at 27 Oct 2026, 08:39 UTC. The headline in use is “Foreign Ministry chides Mbappe over Mao comments”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
The Foreign Ministry in Beijing on Tuesday said that hurting the feelings of the country's people would meet "unanimous rejection" after football star Kylian Mbappe's comments about former leader Mao Zedong. The French footballer's recent comments, in which he appeared to mock the founding leader of the People's Republic of…
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