China's Internet censors have removed posts comparing a photo of President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh and his pal Tigger.
The picture of the two leaders was snapped while they went for a stroll at the Sunnylands estate in California, on June 8.
According to the New York Daily News, sharp-eyed micro-bloggers noticed the uncanny resemblance between them the cartoon characters.
They posted side-by-side comparisons on Twitter-like social media site Weibo, and the images soon went viral.
However, the Communist Party's censors raising objections to the pictures removed them.
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