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Europe Grovels as China Throws a Tantrum Over ‘Dictator’ Mao Comment

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Summary A European soccer star insinuated that Mao Zedong was a dictator, and China showed exactly how a powerful, dictatorial regime operates when it can. Kylian Mbappe, a French soccer star who plays for Real Madrid, a Spanish team, stepped into a controversy made in China, but miserably endured by so many of the communist...

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The captain of the French team, the world football star, suffered brutally the lightnings of Beijing after the broadcast this week of a video in which he evokes the former Chinese leader Mao Zedong using the word "dictator". Even though historians hold him responsible for millions of deaths, Mao remains officially revered as the hero of the communist revolution and the founder of the People's Republic of China. Any attack on his memory is consid…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Lean Right

After the anger for Mbappé's statements about former Chinese leader Mao Zedong, France politician Marine Tondelier is behind him.

·Berlin, Germany
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Marine Tondelier came out of silence to give his support to Kylian Mbappé, in full controversy after the publication of a video in which he described Mao Zedong as a dictator, and which aroused a huge...

Lean Left

The ecologist presidential candidate did not hesitate to call the former communist leader Mao Zedong "dictator". A way to remind – without writing – his internal opponents that LFI is at the opposite of their positions on the Chinese question.

·Paris, France
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Lean Left

The national secretary of environmentalists came to the aid of the French international, entangled in a controversy with China after calling Mao Zedong "dictator".

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Le Figaro broke the news in Paris, France on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
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