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Real Madrid apologise to China over Mbappe comments
Real Madrid apologised to China on Wednesday after star striker Kylian Mbappe apparently joked about Mao Zedong in comments that sparked a social media storm and saw Spanish football yanked off state TV.
Mocking former leader Mao -- blamed by historians for millions of deaths -- is taboo in China, and Mbappe's remarks saw him become the latest foreign sports figure to anger Beijing.Mbappe's original joke about Mao was not reposted -- or had been scrubbed -- from China's tightly controlled social
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