'Top Gun' Sequel Cuts JP and TW Flags from Tom Cruise's Jacket

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Shelby Rose and Jessie Yeung, Tencent-Backed 'Top Gun' Cuts Taiwan Flag from Tom Cruise's Jacket. CNN, July 22, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/m ... intl-hnk/index.html
("A new trailer for the sequel of 1986 blockbuster 'Top Gun' is stirring up controversy because it shows Tom Cruise putting on the iconic bomber jacket he wore in the original film — but with two key changes.  In the Paramount Pictures trailer of
'Top Gun: Maverick,' ('which is slated to release next summer') two jacket patches that had originally shown the Japanese and Taiwanese flags appear to have been swapped out and replaced with two ambiguous symbols in the same color scheme