Double Ten Day:

This image, designed by Tarka Accord, is a particular stylisation of the typical icon used for 'Double Ten Day' (also known as: 'Taiwan National Day' and other variations of the name) on the Tenth of October. The design originates from the double display of the Chinese character for the number ten: '十十' - once for the month and once for the day.

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According to English in Taiwan (website): "Taiwan Double Ten [Day] commemorates the start of the Wuchang Uprising of October 10, 1911, which led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in China and establishment of the Republic of China [what would become Taiwan] on January 1, 1912. After the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, the KMT [aka: Kuomintang; the Nationalists - as opposed to the Communists] fled from China to Taiwan and continued to observe this day. It is essentially the birthday of Taiwan."

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Tarka Accord chose observe this day - not only to due to the organisation's partial descendancy from another Chinese pro-democracy movement (the 2019-20 protests in Hong Kong), but -  to present a form of Chinese culture unchained from the imagery and rhetoric of the brutal dictatorship on the continent and to celebrate the continuation of one of the World's democratic nations.

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Later Addition:
On the 10th of October of 2024, President William Lai of Taiwan (officially called the Republic of China) stated that Taiwan was an independent sovereign state separate from Beijing - being a departure from previous rhetoric on the subject. The South China Morning Post, alongside many other sources, reported on the event: link.