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
Winnie-the-Pooh (book) 1960s, the Milne story lines were used by Disney in its cartoon featurette "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree". The "look" of Pooh was adapted by Disney from Stephen Slesinger's distinctive American Pooh with his famous red shirt that had been created and used in commerce by Slesinger since the 1930s. "Winnie-the-Pooh" was shortly followed by "The House at Pooh Corner", also by Milne. "Return to the Hundred Acre Wood", by David Benedictus was the first official post-Milne Pooh book written with the full backing of A. A. Milne's estate, which took the trustees ten years to agree to.