“Top Gun: Maverick” is earning applause not only for being better than its 1986 original, but for standing up to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after it reinstated a Taiwan flag on the bomber jacket worn by Tom Cruise’s navy pilot character.
In the original “Top Gun” film, Cruise’s character, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, wears a bomber jacket with a navy patch showing Taiwanese and Japanese flag patches. However, both flags were replaced with emblems when the sequel released a trailer in 2019.
Since then, there has been speculation that the CCP may have influenced the decision to remove the flags, as the movie was partly produced by Tencent Pictures, the film-making arm of Chinese tech giant Tencent. The company is known for complying with Beijing’s censorship rules in China and extending its monitoring and censorship to U.S. users through its popular messaging app WeChat….