Comment by vitus

3 months ago

There wasn't a honey farm involved, though. It started with a picture of Xi and Obama likened to a picture of Tigger and Pooh, and then the comparisons just kept coming.

The part about it being seen by the CCP as mockery and disrespectful to Xi is spot on, though. There's also a secondary issue at play, where activists and dissidents will use proxies to refer to the primary subject matter to attempt to evade censors.