Phil Watson stands outside the Chinese embassy in London, ‘seductively’ eating a banana. The bizarre protest is in response to an equally bizarre report that China is outlawing the ‘erotic’ online consumption of bananas. The president, Xi Jinping, is calling for steps to ‘rehabilitate’ his country’s ‘cyber-ecology’, a move state media says is part of a wider attempt to rein in online content deemed too vulgar, too violent or too sexual.