Dr. Duck

Another day, another China cancellation. First Mbappé, now Hello Kitty. And the worst part is, both La Liga and Sanrio completely folded. The target this time was a Japanese spy thriller TV show. Chinese state media claimed its torture scenes mirrored what Japanese troops did to Chinese fighters in WWII, and used it to whip up the usual frenzy about Japanese atrocities. Sanrio (Hello Kitty’s company) responded by killing its merch and marketing collab with the drama. What’s insane is the double standard. China pumps out endless anti-Japan movies and shows specifically to breed hyper-nationalism among its youth, but you don’t see Japan weaponizing its culture against China the same way. Yet China managed to get a beloved JAPANESE 🇯🇵 cartoon icon to yeet itself from a JAPANESE show made for a JAPANESE audience. It's just as infuriating as La Liga promising to develop an “awareness and communications protocol” to re-educate its league players on Chinese sensitivities. This is pure submission to an insecure foreign power. STOP BEING CUCKS and just exit the Chinese market ffs

The Chinese will drop the most unhinged savagery and insults at Turks 🇹🇷 online, no problem, but the moment a French footballer laughs at a photoshopped meme of himself as Mao and says he's "some guy - I think he's a Chinese dictator” in the most offhand way possible, it’s full Cultural Revolution mode. Within hours, energy drink Dongpeng announced it was ending its partnership with Kylan Mbappé. Then Mengniu, China's largest dairy producer, cut every tie with "immediate effect." Mengniu said it has "zero tolerance" for any words or actions that hurt the feelings of the Chinese people. "Dongpeng Beverage ends cooperation with Mbappé" became the number one trending topic on Weibo. For laughing at a dumb Mao meme on a French show, and not knowing who he was, Mbappé lost sponsors, and the state is now blacking out La Liga on Chinese TV. Which is important context seeing that the Chinese keyboard warriors who popped out from behind the Great Firewall to hurl high IQ, historically sophisticated venom at Turks this past week have been advertising “look how free and based we are.” But you're not really free and based if you can't even be ignorant of or not supply sufficient reverence to your nation's leaders and heroes.