The badges have become a hit with military officers and residents of the island as they rush to get their hands on the symbolic item.
This came a day after the island's president, Tsai Ing-wen, returned from a brief visit to the United States, where she met US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy despite Beijing's warnings.
Chinese censors have long targeted representations of Winnie the Pooh due to internet memes that compare the fictional bear to China's president.The patch, designed by Alec Hsu shows an angry Formosan black bear holding Taiwan's flag and punching Winnie the Pooh, with the slogan"Scramble!".The reference is based on what pilots have had to do with increased frequency over the past three years as China sends more aircraft into Taiwan's air defence identification zone.
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