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.

When Xi Jinping visited Barack Obama at the White House in 2013, a social-media wag remarked on how the pair resembled Pooh and Tigger, the bear’s fictional buddy. America’s president was ...

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 film featuring a murderous Pooh bear has been pulled from theaters in Hong Kong and Macau without explanation. Some say it's a result of China's censorship of memes related to leader Xi Jinping.

The patch shows a Formosan black bear, which is native to Taiwan, holding Taiwan’s flag while punching Winnie the Pooh, which Chinese dissidents have increasingly used to mock Xi.

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 ...

Winnie the Pooh had to grin and bear it after being banned from central Madrid while Chinese President Xi Jinping drove by, according to a report. A street performer who dresses up as the honey-hun… ...

On Sina Weibo, often called China’s Twitter, an attempted search for “Winnie the Pooh and Xi Jinping” in both Chinese and English will prompt a message that reads: “In accordance with ...

He’s sweet as honey — but the Chinese just can’t “bear” Winnie the Pooh. ... has been banned from Chinese social media in light of unflattering memes comparing Pooh to President Xi Jinping.

In the video, Xi is seen wearing a robe with a cartoon bear that resembles Winnie the Pooh, a character that has been used to mock the Chinese leader for over a decade.

Even the world's most humble, honey-hungry animated bear can't escape the watchful eye of China's internet censors. In a year full of headlines and new stories many of us thought we'd never have ...

A demonstrator carrying a Winnie the Pooh bear with a portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping on it and holding a "Free Hong Kong" sign takes part in a protest against the Asia-Pacific Economic ...