mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Originally it was just netizens comparing Xi to Pooh because they thought it was cute. But Xi has no sense of humor and banned the comparison. Now people use it to annoy CCP sympathizers. It’s not racist at all, the original intention of the comparison was good willed and innocent.
dogbert@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Image
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 days ago
Wikipedia’s english language article on the subject links to a BBC article from 2017 by Stephen McDonnell, their China correspondent. He has his own Wikipedia article. You can read there that his reporting caused a warning to ABC (back in 2014 when he worked for ABC) from the chiense embassy. I don’t what this entails exactly but anyway those were some facts