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It’s a pretty good sign that a regime is terrified of the people it purports to govern when state censors are obliged to outlaw references to Winnie the Pooh.

Because a lot of people have noticed an unflattering resemblance between the pudgy little bear of bedtime stories and supreme leader Xi Jinping, the Cyberspace Administration of China has been making itself busy this week, blacking out any social media references to “Little Bear Winnie,” the bear’s Chinese name, and replacing them with the warning: “This content is illegal.”

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Another fairly reliable indication of just how rattled and gloomy China’s ruling class is, is that it’s even odds that anyone who can afford to has already left the country, or is considering leaving soon, or is already making plans to leave. Three years ago, a Barclays Wealth survey found that one in three “super-rich” Chinese had already bolted the country, and two out of three millionaires had either already left or were planning to get out. In a new survey published this week, Shanghai’s Hurun magazine and Visas Consulting Group found that half of China’s remaining millionaires are thinking about leaving.