China bans Winnie the Pooh, the letter 'N' after Xi's power grab

China's state-run news outlets have played down the move, as if in hopes that most Chinese simply will not notice, or care

Liu Jin, a 27-year-old teacher in central China, is the kind of young nationalist that President Xi Jinping can typically count on. Liu shares propaganda photos of the president in battle fatigues online and reverently calls him “Uncle Xi.”

But Liu was dismayed this week when he heard that the ruling Communist Party was changing the Chinese Constitution, allowing Xi to stay in power indefinitely.

“I disagree,” Liu wrote on Weibo, a microblogging site, listing examples of power-hungry emperors and autocrats. Censors immediately deleted the post.

During his more than five years in power, Xi has cultivated an image as a man of