Winnie the Pooh (Disney character) 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 disrepectful and were banned in China, but they continued to be used by critics. Dissident Liu Xiaobo and his wife were photographed holding Pooh mugs. As a result of these controversies, the movie "Christopher Robin" was not released in China. Winnie the Pooh (Disney character) Winnie the Pooh is a fictional teddy bear and the title character from the Disney media franchise based on A. A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" (1926) and "The House
A. A. Milne A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II. Alan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London to parents John Vine Milne, who was born in Jamaica, and Sarah Marie