Amid calls last week for a boycott by Chinese Internet users, fashion brand H&M suddenly found its online stores had been taken off shopping platforms in China and its outlets could no longer be found on Chinese map applications.
China is the firm's fourth largest market - after Germany, the United States and Britain.
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