French soccer star Kylian Mbappe learned just how easily the Chinese Communist Party can flop. Mbappe never should have backed down or apologized for a funny meme. Circulating across the internet, there is a meme of Mbappe’s face pasted over the body of the Chinese dictator,

On Monday night, as Kylian Mbappé was attending the Ballon d'Or ceremony in London, he was also becoming the centre of a huge controversy on Chinese social media.

Viewed from a calm, objective and emotion-free standpoint, this is clearly a very damaging incident," Yan Qiang, a veteran sports commentator, told AFP.