Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey ... unwittingly strayed into a Chinese crackdown on Winnie-the-Pooh imagery that was sparked by memes likening the character to Xi Jinping.

Memes started cropping up online comparing the Chinese leader and Barack Obama to A.A. Milne’s characters after Xi visited the U.S. in 2013. Winnie the Pooh gets banned from Chinese social media ...

The collection is based on a viral 2013 meme of Winnie the Pooh squinting at a blank piece of paper in the animation. Chinese individuals have previously likened the iconic Disney character to ...

The film Winnie the Pooh ... hands with Japan's Prime Minister evoked an image of Pooh and Eeyore, the eternally-glum donkey. Memes flew again. The Chinese authorities' response was to ban ...

spy for plots to overthrow the regime – and to monitor derisive remarks about President Xi Jinping’s resemblance to Winnie the Pooh. The Chinese police stations – two of them based in New ...

By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Cinemagoers in Hong Kong looking to have their childhoods potentially ruined by viral slasher hit Winnie-the-Pooh ... sparked by memes likening the children ...

An image of him walking with then-US president Barack Obama sparked comparisons between them and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger. Memes comparing the president and the cartoon bear then began ...

HONG KONG, March 21 (Reuters) - The screening of "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey", a British ... created by English author A.A. Milne, over memes that compare the bumbling bear to President ...

WINNIE-THE-POOH is a good-natured ... Whatever the truth, a meme was born. Censoring China’s internet is a game of whack-a-mole. Direct criticism of the Communist Party and its general secretary ...

References to the original, family-friendly version of Winnie the Pooh have been used to protest against President Xi Jinping in recent years. The meme began after an image showing China's ...