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 ...

In 2013, Xi was the subject of memes comparing him to Pooh after a photo surfaced of him walking next to then-President Barack Obama, whom people likened to Tigger.

DeepSeekR1, the LLM that everyone seems to be talking about has a similar flaw especially when asked any prickly questions about China, Mao, Xi Jinping or his resemblance to Winnie the Pooh.

Xi Jinping is playing hardball. The Chinese president wants to show his people that the country can withstand the economic pain from President Donald Trump's tariffs and stand up to what Beijing is ...