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At least three Chinese companies, beverage producer Dong Pang, dairy group Meng Niu, and Chinese cheese maker Milk Ground, announced the termination of their partnerships with Mbappe.

Red Note said it was reviewing and removing related material.

While his accounts on Red Note Xiaohongshu and Weibo were muted.

International brands including Dior, ON and Hublot also removed Mbappé-related content from Weibo, although removing promotional material does not necessarily mean terminating an endorsement agreement.

China media group CCTV's parent organisation suspended La Liga broadcasts matches featuring Mbappé and advertisements endorsing him.

Apparently, it's got like tomato chocolate chips, the spicy chocolate chips, spicy tomato chocolate chips.

But according to people who have tried it in the article from Red Note, which is like a Chinese social media site, it tastes mostly like tomato.

Okay.

Which I think is weird.

I was on Douyin, their TikTok.

I was on Red Note, Xiaohongshu.

all got pulled.

And even till today, if I try to open an account with them, the moment I upload my profile photo, it just gets pulled.

Yeah, even my

restaurant.

Sometimes my restaurant in London, they have a Xiao Hong Shu account, Red Note account, but they can't put videos that feature my face in it.

They can't put other diners eating there.

And she is not the type of person to be, you know, really... she's not deep seeking effective workouts for middle-aged women or anything like that.

She is watching funny shows on Xiaohongshu.

So for her to see something like this and my students to see something like this, it's going to put them off from going to work out.

And this is where I kind of have to step in and say, that's why you disinfect things.

Number two, educational scrolling, which means that you follow certain social media accounts in order to learn certain things.

I've done this with Chinese, with Russian, etc.

Whether it's on YouTube, Xiaohongshu, or TikTok, etc.

Same with Substack newsletters.

So when people are... upped their critical thinking skills as a result of Gaza, then they're also applying those critical thinking skills in relation to China, in relation to Iran, in relation to Russia, in relation to Cuba or Venezuela or Nicaragua or Zimbabwe or, you know, any other of the classic enemies of the West.

And that's combined with, you know, the whole China maxing phenomenon, influences going to China, YouTubers, TikTokers, etc., etc., the whole Xiaohongshu phenomenon of people in the west engaging in a very nice grassroots way with people in China seeing their you know ordinary living conditions seeing what it's like to go to the hospital with a problem or what it's like to go to the grocery store and buy some fruit and vegetables etc etc so I think all of that has served to humanize China a little bit.

And then that filters into the political discussion, including on the left to some degree that people are more open to China.

And then there's the simple fact that China's progress is kind of undeniable, right? You know, China's made undeniable progress that the Western media can't even hide in relation to policy alleviation, in relation to green energy.

The further you look into it, the more wrong it seems.

Zhang Wanying once posted a photo on Xiaohongshu sitting in the driver's seat of a Bugatti supercar.

The owner of this car is a henchman of the Prince Group, a Cambodian telecom fraud syndicate.

The man who accompanied her to Seattle to keep watch was her lover, and this lover's company is registered at a $4.5 million mansion in Irvine.

Believe me, you need to watch until the very end of today's episode.

You'll find it all becomes clear.

In 2024, Zhang Wanying posted a photo on Xiaohongshu of herself sitting in the driver's seat of a Bugatti.

This car model only had 500 units made worldwide, costing about $3 million each, to put it bluntly.