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| The Diaoyutais belong to us, the patch reads |
While the series of exercises held this week in Greater Kaohsiung and Hualien did not involve the territorial dispute with Japan and China over the Diaoyutai/Senkaku islands in the East China Sea, a number of members of the Military Journalists Association traveling with reporters had a new patch on their jackets that reads 釣魚台是我們的 ("the Diaoyutais belong to us"), with a depiction of a Taiwanese soldier planting a Republic of China flag on a rock. I was able to snap a picture of one while at Hualien AFB
Although probably not officially sanctioned — like a previous incident last year when a F-16 took off carrying a Mk82 bomb with the same inscription under its wing — one of the members said they were distributing the patches as a symbol of support for Taiwan's claims to the islets.
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