When Xi Jinping visited Barack Obama at the White House in 2013, a social-media wag remarked on how the pair resembled Pooh and Tigger, the bear’s fictional buddy. America’s president was ...

In China, the world is witnessing the possible return of a far more technocratic elite that favors scaling back direct confrontation with the West.

The patch shows a Formosan black bear, which is native to Taiwan, holding Taiwan’s flag while punching Winnie the Pooh, which Chinese dissidents have increasingly used to mock Xi.

China’s President Xi Jinping has been compared to Winnie the Pooh, leading to Chinese officials censoring images of the cartoon bear Getty Images Seren Morris 11 April 2023 ...

In the video, Xi is seen wearing a robe with a cartoon bear that resembles Winnie the Pooh, a character that has been used to mock the Chinese leader for over a decade.

Winnie-The-Pooh Is Censored In China, Presumably Because Xi Jinping Is Compared To Him. The comparisons between Winnie-the-Pooh and Xi Jingping go back to 2013, when Xi met with then-President Obama.

A demonstrator carrying a Winnie the Pooh bear with a portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping on it and holding a "Free Hong Kong" sign takes part in a protest against the Asia-Pacific Economic ...