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A children’s book character causes a sensation in Taiwan and goes viral on the internet: why this is a dig at China’s head of state Xi Jinping.
Is a bear a good symbol of resistance? Alec Hsu from the “Wings Fan Goods Shop” not far from Taipei is convinced of this. He has developed a patch that these days tearing heel finds and sells better than many a model airplane or book that he otherwise has on offer.
“I wanted those morale of our troops by designing this patch,” he said. The patch features an angry black bear with a Taiwanese flag punching another bear: poor old goofy “Winnie the Pooh,” of all people.
Taiwan: The patch is increasingly in demand
For the rest of the world, it might be a stuffed animal, a character from the classic children’s book in which a man re-encounters the stuffed animals of his childhood. In China, however, it is a political issue. Then President Xi Jinping is often compared (on the outside, mind you) to Winnie the Pooh – and mocked.
Anyway, in Taiwan, everyone got the message when a military news outlet posted a photo of the patch on one’s arm on Saturday pilots published that one fighter jet inspected. Since then, the patch has been in greater demand, and the Air Force Badge has gone viral on the internet. Thus, the Formosan black bear – an endangered species – became a defiant symbol of the island’s resistance to Chinese military exercises.
Taiwan: The Air Force tolerates the patch
The Taiwan Air Force said that while it does not “particularly encourage” its members to wear the patch. After all, it is not part of their uniform. But: You will be yours “open attitude” maintained against all that the Moral increase
In China, Winnie the Pooh has been falling frequently for years censorship to the victim. The BBC reported that pictures of Winnie the Pooh were blocked on Chinese social networks. The Puuh-Phobia has a history of almost ten years. When Xi Jinping met the then US President Barack Obama in 2013, the Chinese were compared to Winnie the Pooh and the American to his tiger friend “Tigger” on the Internet.
China: Is Censorship Doing Xi a Disservice?
Xi Jinping rules with unlimited power – and perhaps even greater lack of humor. No one knows whether the ruler cannot bear the bear or whether his censorship in anticipatory obedience will unite him disservice proved. Because the more she appears, the more Xi is compared to Pooh.
Even the movie “Christopher Robin” was not released, which is about the invention of Winnie Puuh goes. This is especially true of “Blood and Honey”, a horror film in which a bear hunts a group of young people as a killer.
China: Films are simply not released
Most recently, all Hong Kong cinemas broadcast “Blood and Honey” overnight canceled for technical reasons. Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield dawned, “This isn’t going to be a coincidence.”
He told the Reuters news agency that there was no technical reason that could prevent demonstrations. “The movie became on more than 4,000 cinema screens worldwide shown. These 30 screens in Hong Kong are the only ones with such problems.” (san)
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