Ho Tam, Vase with Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh walking side by side ... (2025)

Ho Tam  
Vase with Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh walking side by side (FC-027) 
2025  
inkjet on glossy photo paper  
edition of 5  
22 x 17 inches
unframed
 
 
 
Xi Jinping Winnie the Pooh Comparisons refer to memes comparing the Chinese President to the cartoon character. Originally spread by Internet users in China to mock the president, the meme saw wider recognition among the Western users after Winnie the Pooh was blacklisted by the Chinese censorship authorities in July 2017.
 
The tradition of limiting China’s presidencies to 10 years emerged in the 1990s, when veteran leader Deng Xiaoping sought to avoid a repeat of the chaos that had marked the Mao era and its immediate aftermath. Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012 he has shown a readiness to write his own rules.
 
But many observers have been alarmed at the prospect of Mr. Xi becoming an “emperor for life”, and critics have suggested this could set China’s development back a century.