Patriotic badges showing Winnie the Pooh being punched in the face by a Taiwanese black bear—a humorous dig at China's leader Xi Jinping—have gone viral across the self-ruled island.
"It's amazing. It's the happiest thing in recent days," social media user Mark Sasha Liang said on Facebook.The patches for sale at a shop in Taoyuan on April 11, 2023. Sam Yeh / AFPChina, which claims the island as part of its territory, launched three days of massive war games on Saturday that involved simulating attacks on democratic Taiwan.
Taiwan's defense ministry released a series of images and videos during the drills to show off its military preparedness. They noticed on the sleeve of his jacket a patch featuring an illustration of a flag-wielding Formosan black bear pounding Winnie the Pooh.Two of the badges have the word "scramble" at the bottom, one of them also proclaiming "we are open 24/7."
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