Representative office in Munich designed the cartoon to illustrate Taiwan’s plight
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/05/11
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Winnie the Pooh roughs up a Formosan black bear outside the WHO (screenshot from facebook.com/TaiwaninMUC)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A bear with a Winnie the Pooh mask is pushing a Formosan black bear away from a door marked “World Health Organization,” according to an illustration made by Taiwan’s representative office in the German city of Munich.
The image refers to the nickname for Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平), which has driven the communist authorities so far as to censor any references to or pictures of Winnie the Pooh from social media.
For the past three years, China has succeeded in blocking any invitation by the World Health Organization (WHO) for Taiwan to attend the annual World Health Assembly (WHA), scheduled for May 20-28 in Geneva this year.
In an effort to spread Taiwan’s message, the island’s office drew up the cartoon to accompany the message in Chinese, German and English on its Facebook page that it should be part of the WHO, the Central News Agency reported Saturday (May 11).
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