{"id":50801,"date":"2022-12-02T17:43:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T08:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/02\/winnie-the-pooh-joins-chinese-covid-lockdown-protests"},"modified":"2022-12-02T17:43:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T08:43:56","slug":"winnie-the-pooh-joins-chinese-covid-lockdown-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50801","title":{"rendered":"Winnie the Pooh joins Chinese Covid lockdown protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disney merchandise shows frowning bear looking at blank sheet of paper \u2013 a symbol of opposition to censorship<\/p>\n<p>Years after he became character non grata in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>, Winnie the Pooh is exacting quiet revenge against the country\u2019s government in the form of Disney souvenirs.<\/p>\n<p>In what appears to be a case of incidental resistance, Disney stores in Japan are selling a line of merchandise featuring a frowning Pooh looking at a blank sheet of white paper \u2013 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/china-protests-explained-why-are-people-demonstrating-blank-piece-white-paper-a4-what-will-happen-next-zero-covid-policy-protest\">symbol of ongoing protests<\/a> in China against censorship and Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/02\/winnie-the-pooh-joins-chinese-covid-lockdown-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney merchandise shows frowning bear looking at blank sheet of paper \u2013 a symbol of opposition to censorshipYears after he became character non grata in China, Winnie the Pooh is exacting quiet revenge against the country\u2019s government in the form of D&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,511,50,71,80,616,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-china","category-culture","category-protest","category-walt-disney-company","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50802,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50801\/revisions\/50802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}