Disney’s Winnie-the-Pooh has been banned on the mainland, seemingly for no reason other than the vanity of Chinese president Xi Jinping. In 2013, a photograph of Xi walking beside former US ...
In 2013, Xi was the subject of memes comparing him to Pooh after a photo surfaced of him walking next to then-President Barack Obama, whom people likened to Tigger.
Winnie the Pooh has been censored on Chinese social ... but the bear has frequently been compared to the country's president, Xi Jinping. And there's an important Party conference coming up ...
Since Xi Jinping came to power ... And what do censors have against Winnie the Pooh? Well, it's a nickname that social media users have coined for President Xi, which is often used derogatively.