Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho has backed Kylian Mbappé over the controversy surrounding the forward’s remarks about China, saying both the player and the club responded with class and had done what was required to address the issue. Mourinho said he felt represented by the reactions of Mbappé and Real Madrid, adding that the club
China’s state broadcaster CCTV has refused to air a Real Madrid match despite an apology from French striker Kylian Mbappé over his controversial remarks about the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, according to the BBC on Monday. The decision came on Sunday as Real Madrid faced Racing Santander in a La Liga fixture, which they
La Liga president Javier Tebas said Monday he is maintaining dialogue with Chinese authorities in an effort to defuse a row over Kylian Mbappe’s comments about former Chinese leader Mao Zedong. Mbappe, Real Madrid and La Liga apologised for the comment after a backlash in China, where mocking former leader Mao — blamed by historians for millions of deaths — is taboo.
China Media Group, which acknowledged Mbappé's apology, has not said how long the blackout will last.
China Southern Airlines will suspend its direct flights between Darwin and Guangzhou, China after just one year operating in the NT. The airline's final scheduled flight to China will be on December 3.
Amid the fallout, Taiwan says it will stop purchases of liquefied natural gas from Port Moresby.
A formal apology over slavery without direct reparations will give the UK the moral high ground but no legal liability A beach in Antigua is not the ideal place for a prime minister to be photographed less than a week after his first budget where the focus was the crushing cost-of-living crisis. Add to the beachside cocktail a row about reparations for the British role in the slave trade, one of the favoured punching bags of the right-wing press, and it becomes easy to understand why Andy Burnham was wary of even attending the Commonwealth heads of government meeting.