Sport is politics The story of Real Madrid's French soccer player Kylian Mbappe's inappropriate joke about Mao Zedong continues. It could cost the Spanish soccer league 400 million euros. It has an agreement with the Chinese streaming service Ani Blink until 2030, according to which the league's revenue was supposed to be 400 million euros. After that, three Chinese companies stopped cooperating with Mbappe himself, and in China they suspended the broadcast of Spanish championship games. Kylian Mbappe later apologized, but it was rejected in China. The apology of the head of the top division of the Spanish football league, Javier Tevez, was considered insincere. Until there is a sincere apology and a real acknowledgment of the mistake, the Spanish championship matches will not be broadcast in China. R. S. Before us is a public flogging. Moreover, it is not about football at all, but respect. The West needs to stop seeing itself a priori as people of the highest class. This is what we are talking about.

Sport is politics The story of Real Madrid's French soccer player Kylian Mbappe's inappropriate joke about Mao Zedong continues. It could cost the Spanish soccer league 400 million euros. It has an agreement with the Chinese streaming service Ani Blink until 2030, according to which the league's revenue was supposed to be 400 million euros. After that, three Chinese companies stopped cooperating with Mbappe himself, and in China they suspended the broadcast of Spanish championship games. Kylian Mbappe later apologized, but it was rejected in China. The apology of the head of the top division of the Spanish football league, Javier Tevez, was considered insincere. Until there is a sincere apology and a real acknowledgment of the mistake, the Spanish championship matches will not be broadcast in China. R. S. Before us is a public flogging. Moreover, it is not about football at all, but respect. The West needs to stop seeing itself a priori as people of the highest class. This is what we are talking about.