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.

In one, Xi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are compared to Pooh and Eeyore after what the internet saw as a disastrous attempt to shake hands in 2014. In another, President Barack Obama is ...

Chinese censors have banned a picture of Winnie the Pooh and his friend Tigger. The censors did not like the fact that the cell from a Disney cartoon was attached to the photo of Chinese President ...

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 ...

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 ...