A nine year-old boy in China has become the latest victim of internet censorship when a letter he wrote for a homework assignment, in which he suggested that President Xi Jinping lose weight, was systematically erased from the internet by government censors.

The Daily Mail is reporting on the story of Niu Ziru, a primary school student in Zhengzhou who was given a weekend homework assignment to write a letter to anyone he chose. Niu decided to write to the president and outlined his idea for the country to go on a space mission to Mars. “The United States and Russia – even the European Union and India – are all planning to land on Mars. Let’s hurry up,” he wrote.

At the end of the letter, he decided to give the president some personal advice.

“You could lose some weight. You don’t have to look as skinny as Obama. Like Putin is okay!”

President Xi Jinping

The boy’s father was pleased with the letter and decided to post it on social media. From there, it went viral, eventually ending up on the sites of the Zhengzhou Evening News and the state-owned Xinhua news agency.

When the boy was interviewed by the Zhengzhou Evening News, he said he had seen Xi and other leaders during the recent Asian leaders summit, and thought Xi had “made Chinese people proud, except that he’s a bit fat.”

Apparently, the Chinese government has a very thin skin and didn’t take kindly to the comments. They wasted no time in erasing all evidence of the letter and Niu’s comments from the internet. The story is now missing from all news websites and Chinese search engines are unable to find anything about it.

Niu’s teacher, Eileen Wang, told Sky News that he’s a good student. “At our school, students are welcomed to speak up . . . so they have crazy ideas like this.”

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