Xinhua News Agency publishes article praising Nike CEO Elliott Hill for visiting Shanghai Shenhua's home stadium to gift jerseys
On October 12, 2026, Xinhua News Agency published an article praising Nike CEO Elliott Hill for making a special trip to the Shanghai Shenhua home stadium to invite Chinese fans to watch a match and gift them jerseys. Netizens compared this to the agency's 2021 condemnation of Nike over the Xinjiang cotton issue, sarcastically calling it 'coming and going'.