> Slightly off topic, but I read somewhere that some online video games censor anything that has the word "Xi" in it. Not sure if that is to prevent badmouthing

> Slightly off topic, but I read somewhere that some online video games censor anything that has the word "Xi" in it. Not sure if that is to prevent badmouthing him or to prevent Chinese political discussion altogether. They can't prevent it altogether. I don't speak Chinese, but my understanding it that it's a punner's paradise, and online political discussion in China occurs using a dense and ever-changing system of slang and puns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophonic_puns_in_Mandarin_Chinese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophonic_puns_in_Mandarin_Ch...: > Xiǎo Píngzi - Students participating in the pro-democracy movement in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 smashed little bottles as a means of protesting Deng Xiaoping's handling of the movement. Deng's given name, Xiaoping (小平) sounds a lot like "Little Bottle" (小瓶子, xiǎo píngzi), https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Grass-mud_horse https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Grass-mud_horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_crab_(Internet_slang) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_crab_(Internet_slang)