“Real Madrid’s Spanish football league match against Racing Santander has not been broadcast on Chinese state TV as La Liga continues to pay the price of the fallout from Kylian Mbappe’s remarks about the country’s former leader Mao Zedong. Neither of the two sports channels on the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV aired Real Madrid’s match on Sunday after star forward Mbappe caused a furore in the Asian country, where millions follow the Spanish league. … Mbappe referred to Mao as a ‘dictator’ in a video from April that went viral recently. It resulted in the body overseeing CCTV saying it would halt broadcasts of the top Spanish league. …”
Al-jazeera