Taiwan's Students Are Back On the Streets
by Brian Hioe
I don’t believe that anything ever ends. Of the the three major student movements in Taiwan in the last thirty years—the Sunflower Movement in 2014, the Wild Strawberry Movement in 2008, and the Wild Lily Movement in 1990—none has ended. But things can begin.
In the past two weeks, Taiwan just saw what was termed the “Bluebird Movement,” a series of protests against an attempt by the KMT—Taiwan’s former authoritarian party and the pro-China party in Taiwanese politics—to expand government powers, possibly threatening political freedoms and civil society groups.
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