AFAIK, it started as overzealous Chinese internet censors taking down posts/memes made by Chinese netizens comparing Xi to Pooh. Western media eventually picked up the story and then due to sinophobia, propaganda and a bit of misunderstanding, redditors wound up turning the story into the Chinese government banning Pooh because Xi was personally offended or something like that.
The big one was a kid having his exit visa revoked for posting anti-china memes while studying in America. He had to go home and spent I think 10 months (?) in either jail or house arrest (or as the western media calls it: "welded into his home").
One of the posts was a Winnie the Pooh meme, so of course they run with it.
AFAIK, it started as overzealous Chinese internet censors taking down posts/memes made by Chinese netizens comparing Xi to Pooh. Western media eventually picked up the story and then due to sinophobia, propaganda and a bit of misunderstanding, redditors wound up turning the story into the Chinese government banning Pooh because Xi was personally offended or something like that.
The big one was a kid having his exit visa revoked for posting anti-china memes while studying in America. He had to go home and spent I think 10 months (?) in either jail or house arrest (or as the western media calls it: "welded into his home").
One of the posts was a Winnie the Pooh meme, so of course they run with it.
redditors really do like to imagine Xi Jinping as some childish thin-skinned lunatic who has a big button he presses labeled "I'm offended"