China Bans Newly Released “Christopher Robin” Amid Censorship Of The Honey-Loving Bear
- Aug 9, 2018
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Though Disney’s “Christopher Robin” seems like the most wholesome and innocent of movies, the newly released Winnie the Pooh film has been banned from release in China. Having nothing to do with the movie’s subject matter, the banning of the film comes from a political standpoint.
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Maytinee Kramer
Though Disney’s “Christopher Robin” seems like the most wholesome and innocent of movies, the newly released Winnie the Pooh film has been banned from release in China. Having nothing to do with the movie’s subject matter, the banning of the film comes from a political standpoint. Government censors blocked images comparing Pooh and Xi Jinping after bloggers used the beloved children’s book character to parody the Chinese President.
The comparison began in 2013 when Xi visited the United States. An image of Xi and then president Barack Obama walking together led to an image comparison of Winnie — a portly Xi – walking with Tigger, a thin and tall Obama. In 2014, Xi was again compared to Pooh during a meeting with Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who resembled the pessimistic and gloomy donkey, Eeyore.
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