🇨🇳 FIFA wanted $300M from China for World Cup broadcasting rights.
China said $60M, take it or leave it.
FIFA took it.
The reason? FIFA scheduled every game between midnight and 6 AM East Asian time, then acted surprised when China's state broadcaster didn't want to pay premium rates for content nobody's awake to watch.
They negotiated themselves from $300M down to $150M, then down to $60M.
Even FIFA couldn’t monetize insomnia at that scale.
Source: Associated Press
What a grand send-off!
Kim Jong Un and Ri Sol Ju personally accompanied Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan to the tarmac and stayed until the plane took off, while thousands of Pyongyang residents lined the streets and the airport with cheers and waves. 👋✈️
Video: @Eng_china5
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