The Chinese name for Winnie the Pooh (Little Bear Winnie) is being blocked on Chinese social media sites because bloggers have been comparing the plump bear to China's President Xi Jinping, the ...

The Xi–Pooh Bear controversy started in 2013, when someone compared an image of the Chinese president and former president Barack Obama with a drawing of Winnie and his cohort Tigger.

But Winnie the Pooh is blocked in China. That’s right. Good ole Pooh Bear’s image is used by Chinese bloggers to reference their leader, Xi Jinping, and the government isn’t having it.

China’s AI chatbot, Ernie Bot, banned users who ask it about President Xi Jinping’s relation to Winnie the Pooh. The crop top-wearing bear was banned from China’s social media in 2017. SOPA ...

Memes pairing Pooh with Xi first cropped up in 2013 after Xi took a stroll beside former President Barack Obama, whose thin frame reminded some of Tigger, Pooh's taller companion.

China's ChatGPT rival Ernie reportedly bans users asking it to compare Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh, CNBC reports. The Chinese chatbot was also found to deflect when asked about the origins of ...

However, the publication reports that some Chinese citizens see the character of Winnie-the-Pooh as a taunt of China’s President Xi Jinping. In fact, Chinese censors have reportedly banned ...

Men wearing Winnie the Pooh costumes and masks depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a photo shoot of a graduation ceremony to support anti-government protest at the Hong Kong ...

According to reports, some in China thought President Xi Jinping resembled Winnie the Pooh in a 2013 photo of him walking alongside President Barack Obama. President Obama was supposed to be Tigger.

Winnie the Pooh censorship in China Back in 2013, a meme of Winnie the Pooh walking hand in hand with Tigger compared to then-President Barack Obama and Xi Jinping went viral on the internet.

China's ChatGPT rival Ernie reportedly bans users asking it to compare Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh, CNBC reports. The Chinese chatbot was also found to deflect when asked about the origins of ...