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.

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        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.

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

          Left half of the image is Winnie the Pooh walking beside Tigger, right half is Xi Jinping and Barack Obama walking side by side.

          Calling it out as racism would be an exaggeration.

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          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.

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          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.