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 the video, Xi is seen wearing a robe with a cartoon bear that resembles Winnie the ... memes comparing him to Pooh after a photo surfaced of him walking next to then-President Barack Obama ...

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 ...