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 ...

When Xi Jinping and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe endured one of the more awkward handshakes in history netizens responded with Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore shaking hands. Weibo/AFP And then ...

Winnie the Pooh has been censored on Chinese social media. People who comment on the site Weibo with "Little Bear Winnie" - Pooh's Chinese name - are given an error ...

DeepSeekR1, the LLM that everyone seems to be talking about has a similar flaw especially when asked any prickly questions about China, Mao, Xi Jinping or his resemblance to Winnie the Pooh.

For many Chinese, the Winnie the Pooh character is a playful taunt of President Xi Jinping. Chinese censors in the past briefly banned social media searches for the bear in mainland China.

For many residents, the Winnie the Pooh character is a playful taunt of China’s President Xi Jinping and Chinese censors in the past had briefly banned social media searches for the bear in the ...