‘Subversive’ Peppa gets chop in China

Peppa Pig appears to have become the latest Western children’s character to be curbed by Beijing.

Around 30,000 videos of the cartoon have been removed from the Douyin website, the Global Times newspaper reported, as state media said that Peppa Pig had taken on a “subversive hue” among a “unruly slackers” opposed to the values of the ruling Communist Party.