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一 | Pope Francis’s July 24-29 tour of Canada included a long-overdue apology to Native Canadians for the Catholic Church’s central role in abuses perpetrated at the country’s network of residential schools.,The notorious boarding school system was funded and organized by Canada’s federal government and run by Catholic and Protestant churches. It oversaw the forceful and systematic assimilation, abuse, enslavement and even murder of Native Canadian boys and girls from the mid-19th to late 20th centuries. It was a particularly brutal and cruel, but by no means first or only, tool of oppression experienced by indigenous peoples during the European colonialists’ history in North America.,“I am here because the first step of my penitential pilgrimage among you is that of again asking forgiveness, of telling you once more that I am deeply sorry. Sorry for the ways in which, regrettably, many Christians supported the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the indigenous peoples. I am sorry. I ask for forgiveness, in particular, for the ways in which many members of the Church and of religious communities cooperated, not least through their indifference, in projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation promoted by the governments of that time, which culminated in the system of residential schools,” Francis said at the former site of the Ermineskin Residential School in Maskwacis, Alberta on July 25.,The pope assured his apology was “only the first step” of “a serious investigation into the facts of what took place in the past and to assist the survivors of the residential schools to experience healing from the traumas they suffered.”,Pope Francis Holds Mass in Quebec During Visit to Canada to Apologize to Indigenous Community28 July, 13:01 GMT,Assimilation,More than 150,000 Native children passed through the residential school system over its 160+ year history. Children were prohibited, often by physical punishment, from speaking their native languages, having their ancestors’ religious concepts replaced with Christianity, and facing their cultural traditions and social norms substituted for those of the colonialists.,The first experimental residential school was opened in Brantford, Ontario, in 1833, but the system only became a federally-mandated, national, industrial-scale tool of subjugation in the 1880s after Sir John A Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, ordered the commissioning of a report on the residential school system model being operated in the United States.,The report, entitled ‘Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds’, became the basis for Canadian state-church cooperation in solving the Indian “problem” by removing indigenous children from the influences passed down to them by their communities and family units.,© WikipediaIndian Residential School, (Fort) Resolution, Northwest TerritoriesIndian Residential School, (Fort) Resolution, Northwest Territories© Wikipedia,Along with forced assimilation, students were subjected to other forms of torment, including sexual abuse by priests and teachers, forced labor, and slavery. As of 2021, the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation has been able to identify 4,117 documented deaths of First Nations, Inuit and Metis children in residential schools. However, new graves continue to be discovered, and former Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Murray Sinclair estimates that more than 6,000 children may have died in the residential school system over the period of its operation.,In his bombshell 2016 book “Murder by Decree: the Crime of Genocide in Canada,” writer and former United Church of Canada reverend Kevin Annett challenged the NCTR over its conservative estimates on the residential school deaths, detailing the commission’s suppression of eyewitness testimony and archival documentation, and estimating that the true death toll may have run in the tens of thousands. Annett documented how the system included a monthly “death quota” and involved the use of germ warfare, and believes that as many as 50,000 children may have perished in the residential school network.,Exploitation,Residential schools were by no means the first instance of settlers’ mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous population, with Britain’s victory against the French in the North American theater of the Seven Years’ War of 1754-1763 sealing their fate of subjugation and colonial land grabs, as well as the relentless and cynical exploitation of the most loyal tribes.,At the conclusion of the war in 1763, King George III issued a royal proclamation declaring all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains and the colonies of what would ultimately become the early United States as Native territories, outlawing their settlement or purchase by colonialists, and requiring treaty negotiations for any changes to the arrangement. In Canada –organized from the remnants of New France under the name ‘Quebec’, lands to the west and north of the colony were proclaimed Indian territory.,Centuries later, scholars continue to fiercely debate the correct interpretation of the proclamation, and whether it was meant as a permanent guarantee of Native rights to lands beyond the then-existent colonies, or a mere opportunity for colonists to catch their breath before continuing an aggressive push west.,© Photo"The British Governments in Nth America Laid down agreeable to the Proclamation of Octr. 7, 1763," Gentleman’s Magazine (London, 1763)"The British Governments in Nth America Laid down agreeable to the Proclamation of Octr. 7, 1763," Gentleman’s Magazine (London, 1763)© Photo,Even as colonists repeatedly broke the 1763 treaty’s terms throughout the rest of the 18th and 19th centuries through wars of aggression and by taking advantage of divisions within Native tribes through cunning and trickery, many Natives remained loyal to the Crown.,Perhaps nowhere was this better exemplified than in the story of Joseph Brant, an 18th-century Mohawk military and political leader who led his warriors in defense of the British Empire during the American Revolutionary War of 1775-1783, and whose efforts proved decisive in halting an American advance into what is now Canada.,In return for the loyalty shown by Brant and his fellow Mohawks, Quebec Governor Sir Frederick Haldimand promised that after the war, his people would be granted more than 8,090 square km of land around the Grand River Basin in southern Ontario. However, after the war ended in 1783, the settlers would gradually chip away at their commitments, with the Native-administered area now known as the Six Nations Reserve shrinking to just 183 square km of land, two percent of what Brant was originally promised.,Brant’s story was repeated in one form or another throughout the 19th century, and today just 0.36 percent of Canada’s total landmass has reserve status for its Native communities.,© Wikipedia / National Archives of CanadaJoseph Brant, watercolour by William ArmstrongJoseph Brant, watercolour by William Armstrong© Wikipedia / National Archives of Canada,Discrimination,Notwithstanding decades of recognition by successive governments of the historical injustices done to indigenous people, and lip service to improving their social and economic standing, Canada’s community of 1.67 million Natives continues to struggle with a broad spectrum of problems more typically characterizing countries of the so-called Third World than of a thriving, highly developed First World nation.,The Council of Canadians estimates that some 73 percent of First Nations’ water systems are at medium or high risk of contamination, with dozens of indigenous communities still lacking basic access to clean drinking water, despite billions of dollars in aid doled out by Ottawa every year to developing countries, and over a billion dollars in support sent to Kiev this year amid the Ukrainian security crisis.,Along almost every social indicator, from poverty and access to housing to crime, education, and healthcare, Native communities continue to rank below other Canadians. Nowhere is this exemplified better than in average life expectancy. While other Canadian men and women live on average to an age of 79 and 84 years, respectively, among the First Nations, Metis and Inuit, these figures drop to 72.5 for men and 77.7 for women.。

二 | 　　8月22日电(左雨晴) 近日，泡泡玛特交出了2026年上半年的成绩单。　　报告期内，泡泡玛特实现营收171.7亿元，同比增长23.8%；经调整后净利润51.6亿元，经调整后净利润率30%，毛利率69.7%。

三 | 　　看似优异的财报，营收、净利润却均未能符合资本预期。21日，泡泡玛特收报149港元/股，跌3.06%，市值1984亿港元，较2025年8月的历史高点已缩水超五成。　　而这背后，是投资者对泡泡玛特海外市场表现的期待落空了。　　“运气”不再之后　　2025年可谓是泡泡玛特的“封神之年”。泡泡玛特2025年全年营收371.2亿元，同比增长184.7%，经调整净利润130.8亿元，暴涨284.5%，仅LABUBU所属的 THE MONSTERS 全年就实现营收141.6亿元。

四 | 海外收入162.7亿元，占比43.8%，美洲市场更是一年增加了七倍多。　　创始人、CEO王宁如此评价：“去年我们确实有运气，很多意想不到的流量，带来了非常快速的业绩增长。”　　但运气不会年年都有。

五 | 　　2026年上半年，泡泡玛特海外市场收入49.72亿元，同比下降超11%。曾经最耀眼的美洲市场，门店数量半年净增22家，营收却下滑了16.5%。海外亚太地区下降9.7%。海外唯一保持增长的是欧洲及其他地区，同比增长5.9%。　　泡泡玛特将其归结为“外部流量红利消退”及“核心IP热度回归常态”。　　财报显示，LABUBU所属的 THE MONSTERS 家族今年上半年收入44.5亿元，虽然仍是泡泡玛特旗下的第一大IP，但同比下滑7.5%。

六 | 　　2025年高速增长带来的销售预测偏差，也让泡泡玛特面临库存问题。财报显示，泡泡玛特存货从2025年底的54.73亿元增至61.02亿元，周转天数从123天陡增至201天。　　“今年上半年的压力比我们预期大很多，也确实面临了很多困难和挑战，这是之前没有预料到的。

七 | ”王宁在业绩会上承认，今年大概率完不成年初设定的20%全年业绩增长目标。

八 | 　　不止是LABUBU不火了　　泡泡玛特的问题出在哪里？　　回望2025年，泡泡玛特凭借LABUBU在海外市场风光无限，这也是其去年业绩大幅拉升的重要原因。　　从东南亚到欧美市场，LABUBU用不到半年时间席卷全球。2025年4月，LABUBU第三代搪胶毛绒挂件“前方高能”系列全球发售时，在线上，泡泡玛特官方应用一度登上美国APP STORE购物榜第一名。　　海外社媒上的泼天流量，以及蕾哈娜、布拉德·皮特、贝克汉姆等国际巨星的喜爱让这股热潮更加势不可挡。2025年11月，在纽约曼哈顿街头花车大游行的队伍中，LABUBU与超级马里奥、米老鼠、巴斯光年等全球经典IP一同出现在巡游队伍，成为百年来首个以原创潮玩IP形象登上花车的中国品牌。当地时间2025年11月27日，LABUBU首次亮相纽约感恩节大游行。中新社记者王帆摄　　那么，LABUBU在海外热度退潮，是泡泡玛特业绩不及预期的唯一原因吗？　　在王宁看来，去年是一美遮百丑、问题很多的一年，尤其运营各环节问题较多。　　“顾客去店里，要么是售罄，要么是在抢购，要么是在长时间排队，我们不认为那是一个应该有的常态。在运营的过程当中，不管是从供应链运营环节、门店运营环节还是人员管理环节，有很多地区都会有这样那样的问题。”他表示，泡泡玛特今年在着手解决各个环节的问题。　　泡泡玛特首席运营官司德在业绩会上透露，泡泡玛特大批海外员工均为去年新入职，对品牌认知仅局限于Labubu 3.0，专业积淀甚至不及普通用户。在潮玩文化、用户基础、团队能力均未充分沉淀的前提下，海外市场迎来短期销售爆发，后续流量退潮后业绩随之明显回落，成为当前海外业务最大挑战。　　这些问题在高速增长时期被亮眼的数字掩盖。

九 | 一旦增速放缓，所有短板都暴露在聚光灯下。　　谁能代替Labubu？　　快消领域从来不缺一夜封神的故事，也没有永恒的顶流IP。LABUBU热度退潮是意料之中，但问题是，LABUBU降温后，泡泡玛特的“潮玩帝国”要靠什么撑起资本市场的期望？　　从财报看，星星人或是“接棒者”。2024年，泡泡玛特签约并正式推出“星星人”IP，该IP首款盲盒上线即售罄，上线当年便实现营收破亿。今年上半年，星星人收入达26.5亿元，同比暴增580.6%，收入占比从2.8%跃升至15.4%，一跃成为泡泡玛特第二大IP。

十 | 　　值得一提的是，泡泡玛特发布财报当晚，星星人新款盲盒正式发售，线上多渠道秒空，隐藏款在二手市场溢价近13倍。这种“一娃难求”的场面，与去年LABUBU最火的时候似曾相识。　　然而，星星人能否像LABUBU那样在全球范围内持续输出商业价值，尚待时间验证。更何况，接棒并不意味着能替代，目前THE MONSTERS的收入仍是星星人的1.7倍，泡泡玛特头部IP集中度依然较高。

十一 | 资料图，消费者在泡泡玛特展区购买星星人雪糕。中新社记者杨郁然摄　　泡泡玛特也在不断试水新IP。

十二 | 2025年下半年以来，泡泡玛特明显加快了推新节奏。从以往半年左右推一个新IP，压缩至不到两个月，甚至一周就官宣一个。然而，市场的热情显然没有同步跟上。

十三 | 　　2025年12月，泡泡玛特推出了主打可爱治愈的新IP——Supertutu。这个在2026年1月1日首发的产品显然被泡泡玛特寄予厚望。然而该系列盲盒上线即遇冷。　　两个多月后，泡泡玛特另一全新IP“放学后的Merodi”同样遇冷。2月27日，“放学后的 Merodi”发售首日市场反映平淡。就在当晚，泡泡玛特再度官宣新IP“Key A”，推新频率创近年来的最快纪录，但该IP产品未正式发售就遭遇负面评价。　　今年6月，LABUBU新品“复古理发店”系列发售，部分常规款一经发售，二手市场即跌破发售价。　　批量孵化IP的泡泡玛特，依然难以摇中下一个“LABUBU”。　　“调整”还要多久　　对于泡泡玛特的发展，王宁多次强调，2026年为“调整年”，销售不是主要目标，不会采取过于激进的销售或扩张策略去强行完成目标。　　从业绩会的反馈来看，泡泡玛特将着手解决库存问题，海外门店更注重质量而非数量，并持续丰富产品矩阵。　　尽管王宁称，LABUBU销售额占比回落意味着泡泡玛特的IP结构更加健康，但泡泡玛特显然不愿意放任这个最赚钱的IP就此继续下滑。　　今年5月的电话会上，泡泡玛特宣布下半年将围绕LABUBU推出两大新品。泡泡玛特与索尼影业合作的真人动画电影也在推进中，将由《帕丁顿熊》系列导演保罗·金执导。城市乐园方面，围绕THE MONSTERS和DIMOO等IP的主题区域刚刚完成扩建。此外，LABUBU还作为特邀嘉宾亮相了2026年美加墨世界杯开幕式，再次掀起一波热度。　　与此同时，泡泡玛特也在推动星星人向外走。司德表示，星星人已经在中国以及大多数亚洲国家成为现象级IP，下半年会把星星人的偶装表演带到新加坡以及更多国家和地区，海外市场的拓展才刚刚开始。　　一路狂飙之后，想要放缓节奏慢慢“调整”的泡泡玛特，能否证明自己不是一家靠运气爆红的公司，仍需时间验证。