He didn't make a joke he just referred to Mao as some Chinese dictator when talking about the meme.

Thank you for your hard work, Godric. I managed to block so many tankies again!

"How do you feel about democracy in China?"

"GREAT!" nervously checks around

How are they so thin-skinned? You'd think tankies would have thick, armoured skin, like a... Well, like a .... rhinoceros 🦏

He done fucked MAO!

Mbappe is just one of the latest personalities who have to literally apologize to Mainland China, as the chunk of their income is much derived from whatever products and services they're selling (or pandering) to the Mainlanders.

At this stage and no thanks to the United States whose capitalists offloaded manufacturing and even technological capability to the Middle Kingdom because cheaper labor and less oversight -- and now Trump's lunatic self-destructing regime changing much of the developing world beginning with killing USAID -- China is so much of a greater hegemonic capitalist power now that it has developed its own brand of "cancel culture" where some millions of Mainland Chinese who are well-to-do consumers but also nationalistic, can afford to vote with their wallets and thus humiliate anyone who dares to insult their country.

This is the Mainland China of Xi Jinping that can say no.

No, no, you don't understand. China is most free, best country. Please consult happy chart.

See? Bar is higher.

The encapsulation of Mao:

“If the worst came to the worst and half of mankind died [in nuclear war], the other half would remain while imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.”

Zapp Brannigan revolutionary with no plans beyond bravado. There was/is no universe where a nuclear holocaust ends in sunshine and roses instead of the (functionally) permanent crippling of the human race. That lack of critical thought is still infecting leftist conversation today: vastly underestimating the cost and implications of actions and relying on blind appeals to moral determinism.