{"id":54240,"date":"2023-04-11T13:12:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T04:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/taiwan-jump-in-sales-for-air-force-badges-showing-bear-punching-winnie-the-pooh"},"modified":"2023-04-11T13:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T04:12:48","slug":"taiwan-jump-in-sales-for-air-force-badges-showing-bear-punching-winnie-the-pooh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54240","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan: jump in sales for air force badges showing bear punching Winnie-the-Pooh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, is often the subject of internet memes that compare him to the children\u2019s character<\/p>\n<p>Taiwanese are rushing to buy patches, popularised by air force pilots, that depict a Formosan black bear punching Winnie-the-Pooh \u2013 representing China\u2019s president Xi Jinping \u2013 as a defiant symbol of the island\u2019s resistance to Chinese war games.<\/p>\n<p>China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/08\/china-to-hold-military-drills-around-taiwan-after-us-speaker-meeting\">began three days of military drills<\/a> around Taiwan on Saturday, a day after the island\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, returned from a brief visit to the United States, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/07\/taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-meeting-us-speaker-divides-opinion\">she met US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy<\/a> despite Beijing\u2019s warnings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/taiwan-jump-in-sales-for-air-force-badges-showing-bear-punching-winnie-the-pooh\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, is often the subject of internet memes that compare him to the children\u2019s characterTaiwanese are rushing to buy patches, popularised by air force pilots, that depict a Formosan black bear punching Winnie-the-Pooh \u2013 repres&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54241,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54240\/revisions\/54241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}