Chinese censors have removed images and text related to Winnie-the-Pooh from sites including WeChat and Weibo.
No, that’s not a spoof headline.
Winnie the Pooh is arousing the wrath of socialist censors Beijing. And it’s not the first time he’s done it.
Over the weekend, Chinese censors removed images and text related to 100-Acre Wood’s most famous resident from sites including WeChat and Weibo, China’s bigger-than-Twitter microblogging platform, the Financial Times reports .
Although no official explanation for the blacklisting was given, it’s likely connected to a longstanding joke.
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Social media users first pointed out a comic likeness between Chinese Premier Xi Jinping and Disney’s rendering of A.
