Winnie the Pooh has been used in political
satire and has created controversies in China since 2013. In that year, critics compared to an image of Pooh and his friend
Tigger a picture of Presidents Xi Jinping and Barack Obama, who met at the G20 in Saint Petersburg,
Russia. Cartoons of Xi as Winnie the Pooh were regarded as disrespectful and were banned in China, but they continued to be used by critics.