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BEIJING (Bloomberg): Mercedes-Benz removed a video advertisement from a Chinese social media website, state media said, after the clip got swept up in a charged national debate over depictions of Asian-looking features by foreign companies.

A 2019 advertisement poster for Three Squirrels, a domestic snack brand, became a topic of discussion on social networking sites on Sunday because someone felt the model in it, Cai Xiangxiang, had small, slanted eyes.

Guccis differentiated treatment of Chinese and Western audience has been slammed by Chinese netizens who say its clearly a manifestation of guilty conscience, and that the brand knew it has presented a Western-style Asian appearance that would irritate the Chinese audience, Global Times reported.

The German automaker was savaged on Chinese social media site Weibo for using models with slanted eyes in the commercial for its new CLS luxury sedan.

BEIJING – Advertisements featuring some Chinese models have sparked feuding in China over whether their appearance and makeup are perpetuating h ...

The episode, reported by a state media outlet, has made the maker of luxury cars the latest target of consumer nationalism in China.

With the waves stirred by the slanted-eyed model posters of Three Squirrels and Mercedes-Benz still unsettled among the Chinese public, another wave has hit again on Wednesday as an advertisement of Italian luxury fashion brand Gucci was found featuring an Asian-looking model with “scary” makeup, an exaggerated nose ring and a leather whip in her hand.

A Chinese model defended herself on Sunday against a "morbid obsession" after people launched a barrage of criticism towards her for her perceived "slanted eyes". The controversy surrounded a 2019 advertisement for the Three Squirrels snack brand featuring Cai Niang Niang, the model's professional pseudonym. Many people in China pushed back against her "overly slanted eyes" in the advertisements because...

BEIJING (AP) — Advertisements featuring some Chinese models have sparked feuding in...

Advertisements featuring some Chinese models have sparked feuding in China over whether their appearance and makeup are perpetuating Asian stereotypes