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4th January 2016
07:56am GMT

Believe it or not, this picture of a Winne the Pooh toy sitting innocently in a car caused an awful lot of offense last year.
After being posted to social media with the caption: "A picture to share, the photo quickly did the rounds and got over 65,000 shares in under 69 minutes.
However, it was soon taken down and banned from use.
The reason?
According to The Metro, Chinese President Xi Jinping had been closely associated with the fictional bear since 2013, when bloggers noticed an uncanny resemblance between the pair.
Since then, Chinese censors have deleted all social media posts appearing to compare the honey-loving bear to the President.
Do you see the resemblance?
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