The patch shows an angry Formosan black bear holding Taiwan’s flag and punching Winnie the Pooh, with the slogan 'Scramble!'
Taiwanese are rushing to buy patches being worn by their air force pilots that depict a Formosan black bear punching Winnie the Pooh – representing China’s President Xi Jinping – as a defiant symbol of the island’s resistance to Chinese war games.
Alec Hsu, who designed the patch, has been selling it at his shop since last year, but he saw a spike in orders after Taiwan’s military news agency on Saturday published a photo of the patch on the arm of a pilot inspecting a fighter jet. The endangered Formosan black bear is seen as a symbol of Taiwanese identity. Taiwan was previously better known internationally as Formosa.
China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has not ruled out taking the island by force. Tsai’s government rejects China’s sovereignty claims, saying only Taiwan’s people can decide their future.
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