China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

It’d be funny if he called him “Winnie the pooh” when he meets him to explain himself :)

No that would be racist.

The Internet has used it to indirectly refer to him

I did for a bit too until someone here pointed out the underlying issue. Winnie is yellow in all the images of him Disney made or not. And “yellow” people in Western racism are Asians particularly Chinese people.

It would be really fucked up for Germany to call Xi any variation of that name IMO.

The meme was created by Chinese bloggers, who used it to mock Xi despite heavy monitoring and censorship. If anything, perpetuating it is a show of support of Chinese dissenters.

Let’s think about as a way to be less obvious when talking about him

You are not a Chinese blogger.

At this point it’s mostly just crackers who refer to him this way.

Did you just assume my ethnicity?

Well you clearly are an authority on racism, you’ve got years of experience.

It honestly depends, some VPN companies like to use it to refer him but don’t want to piss off the Ccp so they blocked all their servers.

You are aware that they compare him to Winnie due to this image, right?

Calling it out as racism would be an exaggeration.

No it’s definitely racist—see obama is tigger because they’re calling him a….

Whoever pointed that out is the racist.

This just in: calling a black person Mickey mouse is racist! Can’t call a white person “Snoopy”, that’s racist too. Likening a Chinese person to a character from the Simpsons? Believe it or not, racist.

I did for a bit too until someone here pointed out the underlying issue. Winnie is yellow

That’s one point off your critical thinking score.

Incorrect nice try though

Lol, you guys crack me up.

Why is that? Is it because you think it’s funny that Winnie the Pooh is yellow and Xi is Chinese? Racism is so funny!!!

Nah it’s funny because they’re both fat and short dude

The german minister of foreign affairs is the women depicted in the post.

I think they were talking about the ambassador (who may also be a woman, idk) not the foreign minister.

Very likely. However that is also a women.

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