SportsMbappé’s China faux pas: When sports collide with geopolitics

François Picard speaks with French-Serbian sports writer and analyst Igor Mladenovic about the backlash in China after Kylian Mbappé jokingly referred to a meme portraying him as Mao Zedong. Mladenovic says the episode shows how an apparently harmless anecdote from a football star can spiral into a geopolitical firestorm in the digital age.