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 ...

The start of 2025 has been good for China and its reputation as a high-tech innovator. The unveiling of the Chinese-made ...

ChatGPT got that idea right. It said Winnie the Pooh had become a symbol of political satire and resistance, often used to mock or criticize Xi. It explained that internet users compared Xi to the ...

When Xi Jinping and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe endured one of the more awkward handshakes in history netizens responded with Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore shaking hands. Weibo/AFP And then ...

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.

In the video, Chinese leader Xi Jinping appears in robes splashed with red and cartoon designs of a yellow bear. It's a striking reference to Winnie the Pooh, the cuddly, honey-loving resident of ...

It’s 12 years since Xi Jinping launched his crackdown on graft with a promise to catch “flies” as well as “tigers”. Since ...

When a meme comparing Xi to Winnie the Pooh went viral on Chinese social media, Xi Jinping was not amused. Censors banned any such comparisons. When Cai Xia published an op-ed calling for the ...