{"id":496817,"date":"2026-06-17T05:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/496817\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T05:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:41:12","slug":"lululemon-issues-china-apology-after-great-wall-yoga-event-draws-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/496817\/","title":{"rendered":"Lululemon issues China apology after Great Wall yoga event draws criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/retail\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Retail<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Amid rising nationalism, Western brands face increased scrutiny over cultural sensitivity<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260617 Lululemon\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A Lululemon store in Shanghai.\u00a0China accounted for 16% of the Canadian activewear brand&#8217;s group revenue in 2025. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212; Canadian activewear brand Lululemon has issued a public apology after the use of a drum during a marketing campaign in China drew online backlash for the instrument&#8217;s resemblance to a Japanese taiko drum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retail Amid rising nationalism, Western brands face increased scrutiny over cultural sensitivity A Lululemon store in Shanghai.\u00a0China accounted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13880,1657,50135,41685,146,6764,32439,85,46,2312,42867,37806,6212],"class_list":["post-496817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-apology","tag-china","tag-criticism","tag-draws","tag-entertainment","tag-event","tag-great","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-issues","tag-lululemon","tag-wall","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}