UNIFORM REQUIREMENT:The dress uniform for military instructors includes a badge with a white sun on blue sky, a plum blossom, two ears of wheat, a rifle and an ink brush
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 30, 2017
By: Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
New Power Party (NPP) Legislator Hsu Yung-ming (徐永明) yesterday panned the
A military instructor’s badge featuring the white sun on a blue sky symbol associated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is pictured yesterday. Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times
nation’s campus military instructors for wearing badges bearing the symbol of the China Youth Corps (CYC) and the Chinese National Party (KMT).
Soldiers were first installed as military instructors in high schools, colleges and universities for the indoctrination, combat training and policing of the students during the Martial Law era. They are currently tasked with providing security and military training at schools nationwide.
The government-issued badges are overtly partisan and inappropriate to wear on campuses, Hsu said.
“The CYC badge’s device of white sun on blue sky are symbols of the KMT,” the lawmaker said, citing reports on the corps’ founding on Oct. 4, 1952, by Chinese-language newspapers such as the Popular Daily, the National and the Economic Times. [FULL STORY]