Sammy

I disagree. You're holding China to crazy standards no one even thinks of applying to the West if we're being objective. The West ends people's contracts every day for criticizing Israel and other relatively flimsy things, and that's never called a “generational blunder” Like this particular standard is literally non existent for the west and I’m surprised as to why you are even trying to apply it critically to China, what power are you even trying to keep in check? Citizens expressing discomfort? Let’s start from what exactly is this China's blunder? Especially given the fact that it wasn't some dictatorial order from CPC or XI that made him lose those sponsorships, but Chinese citizens disliking Mbappé's response; an athlete with major Chinese brand deals, about a revered Chinese figure. Chinese citizens expressed discomfort with how Mbappé handled the question, so his sponsors, unwilling to lose money from Chinese investors, promptly and rightly withdrew sponsorships. Is that the generational PR blunder? A contract clause for this was surely already in place. Plus this move will surely earn China more international respect and show it's no longer that poor, helpless country that is always the butt of stupid jokes, propaganda, or smears campaigns that ignore actual Chinese citizens perspectives and feelings. I mean this is a world power that rose to its status without exploiting and subjugating entire civilizations like the West did and still does. Both the Chinese and the figures who enabled this rise deserve respect on the international stage, period.