sunflower movement

Demonstration Against Chinese Annexation Efforts Takes Place Outside Legislative Yuan

Brian Hioe
An alliance of NGOs, civil society organizations, and student activist groups held a demonstration against Chinese efforts directed at annexing Taiwan outside the Qunxian Building of the Legislative Yuan earlier this evening. Significantly, this included many individuals who had been key figures in the Sunflower Movement and post-Sunflower Movement activists...
EnglishMay 2019Self-DeterminationSocial Movements6 min read

The Cross-Straits Oversight Bill Reemerges as an Issue

Brian Hioe
It may be ironic that five years after the Sunflower Movement’s monthlong legislature of the Legislative Yuan in 2014, one of the demands dating back to the movement has floated up again as a public issue. Namely, one of the key demands of the movement was that a cross-strait oversight bill be passed in order to strengthen civic oversight over the passage of future cross-strait bills...
April 2019Cross StraitEnglishInternational5 min read